Pelosi = Schultz
“I know nothink!” Politico re the House Speaker and waterboarding:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back on GOP charges that she knew about waterboarding for years and did nothing.
Pelosi says she was briefed by Bush administration officials on the legal justification for using waterboarding — but that they never followed through on promises to inform her when they actually began using “enhanced” interrogation techniques
“In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel … opinions that they could be used,” she told reporters today.
Politico with an inconvenient update:
Nancy Pelosi denies knowing U.S. officials used waterboarding — but GOP operatives are pointing to a 2007 Washington Post story which describes an hour-long 2002 briefing in which Pelosi was told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.
Two unnamed officials told the paper that Pelosi, then a member of the Democratic minority, didn’t raise substantial objections …
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
Pelosi in a further update claims that while she didn’t object, someone else did, later, and she likes that.
None of this is new, except the fact that Pelosi is actually responding. Sounds like someone’s getting sensitive. What with all the calls for prosecution. Hey, I can get on board with that. Prosecutions all around!
Malkin, cruelly, public’s more in tune with Cheney than Soros.
Hot Air: Here we go again.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:11 am on Friday, April 24, 2009
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April 24th, 2009 at 10:14 am
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April 24th, 2009 at 11:11 am
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April 24th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
If I had to do a portrait of Nancy Pelosi, it would be her face imposed on the Snake in the Garden of Eden. This woman has absolutely no shame.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Most leftists have no concept of “shame” or any concept of sin. Morales to them are variable, malleable things to be used to gain an advantage for yourself, or deny it to your opponent. I think that it is a genetic defect with them.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:26 am
“Nancy Pelosi denies knowing U.S. officials used waterboarding — but GOP operatives are pointing to a 2007 Washington Post story which describes an hour-long 2002 briefing in which Pelosi was told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.”
Well, Nancy ain’t exactly the sharpest pencil in the box. She probably didn’t understand a word they said.
April 25th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
We have a perfect storm of stupidity assailing us in the form of congress.
April 25th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Put Pelosi in a WWII Luftwaffe NCO uniform, and the resemblance to Schulzie would be uncanny.
Except that she is not funny in any way, shape, or form.
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