This story just keeps getting better and better.
Dec. 12, 2007: "On one occasion, in the fall of 2002, I was briefed on interrogation techniques the administration was considering using in the future. The administration advised that legal counsel for the both the CIA and the Department of Justice had concluded that the techniques were legal. I had no further briefings on the techniques...Jane Harman was briefed more extensively and advised the techniques had in fact been employed."
Feb. 25, 2009: "No. No the fact is, they did not brief, well first of all, we're not allowed to talk about what happens there, but I can say they did not brief us with these enhanced interrogations that were taking place. They did not brief us. They were talking about an array of interrogations taht they might have at their disposal. But I can say flat out, they never told us that these enhacement interrogations were being used."
April 23, 2009: "It is not appropriate for me to talk about what happens at briefings . It is very interesting that people are talking so freely. But I can say this :They have been talking about it for a while. At that or any other briefing, and that was the only breifing that I was briefed on in that regard, we were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
May 14, 2009: "The CIA briefed me only once on some enhanced interrogation techniques...The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed. Those briefing me in September 2002 gave me inaccurate and incomplete information. In February 2003, a member of my staff informed me that (other legislators) had been briefed about the use of certain techniques which had been the subject of earlier legal opinions"
Apparently, my wish from last week has been answered and then some. Mrs. Pelosi incomprehensible story continues to become less believable and more laughable. And as if she couldn't keep her story straight, she outright accuses the CIA of lying to her, intentionally no less. As Senator Bond said yesterday, she clearly "disremembered" what took place. Furthermore, Porter Goss, who later went on to become head of the CIA, has acknowledged that he and other members of the Intelligence Committee were briefed on certain "enhanced techniques." So the question is, why would the CIA tell some members of the Intel committee one thing, and then Nancy another? The answer is they wouldn't, and clearly she has caught herself in a convoluted web of lies. Obviously the Obama administration doesn't want to be anywhere near this, but the more the speaker tries to free herself from this conundrum, the deeper in trouble she gets. Furthermore, what does the administration have to hide, when Dick Cheney of all people wants CIA memos declassified, and the Obama administration rebuffs his request? Quite frankly I don't see how Pelosi keeps her speakership over this debacle, if not due to her disregard for any sort of ethics, and the damage she is causing our intelligence community, but at the very least the amount of damage she is causing her party and this administration.
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