Pelosi Losing Ground To The CIA

May 15. 2009

Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is losing ground in the court of public opinion, regarding her denials about former president George W. Bush’s torture policies, she claimed complete ignorance to, until she was outed as a liar, via a series of documents attesting otherwise.

The press and the public simply do not believe her and have expressed those opinions online and in print.

Pelosi vs. the CIA: She loses

The more House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about torture, the worse her credibility looks.

Now Pelosi has picked a fight with the CIA, implying the agency is making her look bad by releasing information about meetings on torture she attended years ago.

Sorry, but Pelosi has made herself look like an inept congressional leader all by herself.

It now appears clear that, as Pelosi finally acknowledged, she knew almost six years ago that the CIA was torturing detainees with waterboarding.

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Speaker's Comments Raise Detainee Debate to New Level

Friday, May 15, 2009 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate over the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies even as it raised some questions about the speaker's credibility.

Pelosi's performance in the Capitol was either a calculated escalation of a long-running feud with the Bush administration or a reckless act by a politician whose word had been called into question. Perhaps it was both.

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The Speaker misspeaks

By Joseph Curl POLITICAL THEATER | Friday, May 15, 2009 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her eyes wide, her hands gesticulating wildly, on Thursday laid out a third version of what she knew and when she knew it about the Bush administration's interrogation policies, edging ever closer to debating what the meaning of the word "is" is.

With even her own second-in-command now demanding more answers, the California Democrat, her voice barely audible at times, read a rambling statement at her weekly press briefing about her prior knowledge of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" (EITs) employed under President Bush, insisting that she was not told in a September 2002 briefing that the U.S. government used waterboarding.

Minutes later, though, she acknowledged for the first time that her top security adviser had learned details of a February 2003 briefing in which lawmakers were told that American interrogators were in fact waterboarding suspected terrorists.

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