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CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'

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Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered "EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah." EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.
CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations' - Capitol Briefing


Nailed.

She should be forced to resign for conduct unbecoming US Congresswoman.



Edit--woops didn't see the other post on this.
 
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Watch the liberals come rushing in here to defend the lying bitch. It's time liberals apologized for their hypocracy.

SAY YOU'RE SORRY.
 
I think she may be nailed, but your limiting your belief that she should resign to ONLY her makes you look incredibly partisan. JMO
Okay, say you're sorry now. :mrgreen:
 
Watch the liberals come rushing in here to defend the lying bitch. It's time liberals apologized for their hypocracy.

SAY YOU'RE SORRY.

Why should I say I'm sorry? I never defended her. In fact next election, I am voting Reid out at least and wish I could do the same with Pelosi. Reid has been on my hitlist to get out for the past 4 years.
 
Watch the liberals come rushing in here to defend the lying bitch. It's time liberals apologized for their hypocracy.

SAY YOU'RE SORRY.

No we won't.

I am a liberal & if Pelosi was accurately briefed that we even intended to commit war crimes & she did nothing to stop them, then she should be removed from office & possibly prosecuted herself.
Anyone involved in war crimes is a war criminal.
 
Why should I say I'm sorry? I never defended her. In fact next election, I am voting Reid out at least and wish I could do the same with Pelosi. Reid has been on my hitlist to get out for the past 4 years.
Wow, you can do that? I'm impressed. I thought in the US it took a lot more than one person to vote someone out.

Come to think of it, how do you vote someone out? Is there an option to vote This person is out?

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Wow, you can do that? I'm impressed. I thought in the US it took a lot more than one person to vote someone out.

Come to think of it, how do you vote someone out? Is there an option to vote This person is out?

.

If you really need clarification on what I said, that is pretty sad. It means I am voting for the other guy. Reid had his shot and IMO blew it and I will not support him.
 
If you really need clarification on what I said, that is pretty sad. It means I am voting for the other guy. Reid had his shot and IMO blew it and I will not support him.
Oh, OK. I thought from what you said, the voting in NV (Reid so I'm assuming NV) might be abnormal.

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If you really need clarification on what I said, that is pretty sad. It means I am voting for the other guy. Reid had his shot and IMO blew it and I will not support him.

NextEra, you should know that TOJ does not look to have meaningful exchanges on here. Click on his name to see his other posts, and you will see exactly what I am talking about. Notice his response to you.
 
I say kick her ass out as well. She sucks as the Speaker of the House anyway. GOD she drives me nuts!!!
 
No we won't.

I am a liberal & if Pelosi was accurately briefed that we even intended to commit war crimes & she did nothing to stop them, then she should be removed from office & possibly prosecuted herself.
Anyone involved in war crimes is a war criminal.
How fortunate for Pelosi that no war crimes were committed.

And how predictable (and pathetic) that liberals will gleefully cannibalize their own, happily paying the steep price in order to gratify their hatred of one man.
 
No we won't.

I am a liberal & if Pelosi was accurately briefed that we even intended to commit war crimes & she did nothing to stop them, then she should be removed from office & possibly prosecuted herself.
Anyone involved in war crimes is a war criminal.

War crimes? So we are now going to fabricate a new definition for what is meant by War Crimes? I cannot say that I am shocked by such rabid partisan hyperbole. :roll:

Unfortunately for those of us who live in the REAL world, Pelosi's apparent hypocrisy will cause very little loss of sleep for her. It is unlikely she will suffer politically for her apparent hypocrisy on this issue. After all, that is the sate MOST Democrats find themselves in on the debate about perceptions of what constitutes "torture" and the Iraq War.

I am enjoying watching REALITY smack the followers of the Democrat Party and the participants who are happily condemning their Republican opponents in the belief that the media would not "OUT" them on these issues.
 
I say kick her ass out as well. She sucks as the Speaker of the House anyway. GOD she drives me nuts!!!

BUT.....Americans voted to empower the Democrats because of their honesty, their fiscal responsibility, pay-as-they-go and transparency which the Republicans so lacked! I am so confused now; however could this be? Nancy PROMISED us. :rofl
 
BUT.....Americans voted to empower the Democrats because of their honesty, their fiscal responsibility, pay-as-they-go and transparency which the Republicans so lacked! I am so confused now; however could this be? Nancy PROMISED us. :rofl

Um, you somehow are confusing ONE member of the party from the house, the most extreme wing of the gov't, with that of the entire movement. Surely you can be honest with all of us an admit that you've seen democrats on here time and time again calling for her to be defeated or to resign. Tell me, how often does that happen on the other side of the fence?

BTW adding :rofl to your post doesn't give you any more credibility, and without proper use it just looks arrogant.
 
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War crimes? So we are now going to fabricate a new definition for what is meant by War Crimes?

Public question to President Obama & Atty. General Holder:

Is waterboarding torture?

Answer from Both...YES

Geneva Conventions & Int'l law:
Torturing a prisoner IS a war crime.


Therefore...Bush & Cheney have confessed to authorizing war crimes.
 
I think she may be nailed, but your limiting your belief that she should resign to ONLY her makes you look incredibly partisan. JMO
And what do YOU suggest should happen to her?
 
War crimes? So we are now going to fabricate a new definition for what is meant by War Crimes? I cannot say that I am shocked by such rabid partisan hyperbole. :roll:
Wait...
I keep hearing how no war was ever declared by Congress.
How can there be war crimes when there is no war?
 
Um, you somehow are confusing ONE member of the party from the house, the most extreme wing of the gov't, with that of the entire movement.

So you are suggesting that Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House and Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader are NOT representative of the DNC and their party?

Are you also suggesting that they were chosen for these HIGH level positions within the Democrat Party because they do NOT represent the current Democrat philosophy?

I'm sorry, but that takes quite a stretch for me.

Surely you can be honest with all of us an admit that you've seen democrats on here time and time again calling for her to be defeated or to resign. Tell me, how often does that happen on the other side of the fence?

I can honestly say that up until this thread, it is a very RARE occurrance; however, are you suggesting that the comments on DP are representative of the majority of Democrats in the USA?

I'm sorry, but that requires more of a stretch for me.

BTW adding :rofl to your post doesn't give you any more credibility, and without proper use it just looks arrogant.

Now you enter into whiney personal insults in lieu of honest debate? I find it amusing that you would think that I would care about your notions about the credulity of the :rfol.

Tell me something, how many posters on DP have you shared this :rfol philosophy with; or is this just selective anti-TruthDetector outrage on your part?

I find it ironic that you talk about credibility with the statements you have made above; suggesting that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid got where they have by NOT representing the BEST the Democrats have to offer and who perhaps do not properly represent the "real" Democrat Political Philosophy.

If it appears to you that I have real distaste for Liberals and Democrats, you are absolutely 100% correct in about 95% of the cases; because to be honest with you, after the last 8 years they earned it every bit of it.

Now maybe you think the campaign by Democrats to lie about, distort the record, slander and impugn people of good character who tried to defend and protect this nation's citizens and divide this nation with their outrageous populist rhetoric for purely partisan political gain was all in good fun and sport, but in this case we certainly can adamantly disagree. I find it despicable, reprehensible and outrageous.

I shall refrain from the :rfol you find so incredulous because there is nothing funny about the current asinine state of the Democrat party.

DP Disclaimer; this has been a non-partisan response to the poster in question and in no way have I claimed or intended to claim that the person being responded to is a Democrat, voted Democrat or intends to register Democrat. Nor have I tried to suggest they were a Democrat or a Liberal in any way shape or fashion. I am aware that the DP hyper partisan deciders do not like partisanship on a political forum and therefore keep my comments a-political.
 
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Wait...
I keep hearing how no war was ever declared by Congress.
How can there be war crimes when there is no war?

Silly Goobie, Liberals don't make sense or have consistent views. It is all about how you FEEL! :cool:
 
Public question to President Obama & Atty. General Holder:

Is waterboarding torture?

Answer from Both...YES

Geneva Conventions & Int'l law:
Torturing a prisoner IS a war crime.


Therefore...Bush & Cheney have confessed to authorizing war crimes.

Have you READ the Geneva Conventions? Because if you had, you would find that FIRST, they do not apply to non-uniformed enemy combatants who do not represent any nation that is would be a party to the convention; and TWO, the definition of torture according to that convention states the definition of torture as being severe physical or mental harm.

Hasn't happened, so despite the FACT that Holder AND Obama are intellectual midgets and fabricate their own ideas about what constitutes torture and place our nation at risk with their idiotic and naive assertions, was there anything else you wish to add to such uninformed statements?

Here is a link so that you may be informed:

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 
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Now you enter into whiney personal insults in lieu of honest debate?

Very next post

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Silly Goobie, Liberals don't make sense or have consistent views. It is all about how you FEEL!

Apparently consistency is not just a liberal problem.
 
Oh I see whats the line is .
See Pelosi is guilty BUT not for lying about what she knew and when but for taking part in it.

That way the left can also villify others while/if she falls.

That is cute but the primary thing she is guilty of is outright lying..not even kinda lying but completely 100% knowingly lying while she was using those lies to villify, demonize, and criminalize actions she approved.


Make it real simple=--

THIS is about Pelosi and her actions not about whether or not what occured was Torture.
 
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