Wicked Web Woven
By someone. This is fascinating. Sounds like Pelosi plans to pit her word against the CIA. Or she’s betting on the CIA staying mum, keeping its agents out of the limelight. Then there’s ex-CIA Chief Porter Goss, who was there as a ranking Republican congressman at the time. Maybe she figures she can take him on the same she said/he said ground as the CIA. Either that or the CIA lied to her. And Porter Goss is lying. Which, as others have noted, shoots holes in various claims the Dems have made about the CIA, Bush, Cheney, and truthfulness. Speaking of which, Pelosi needs to get her story straight on that. via ABC:
“The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed,” Pelosi said, reading from a prepared statement. “Those briefing me in Sept. 2002 gave me inaccurate and incomplete information.”
“At the same time, the Bush administration was misleading the American people about the threats of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” she added. “The CIA was misleading the Congress. At the same time, the administration was misleading the Congress on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Dem Cong likes the CIA telling Bush the WMD dirt was all wrong, which means the Dems have to figure out when they want the CIA to be telling the truth, and when they want the CIA to be lying.
Here’s Goss, via Rove’s WSJ column yesterday:
Mr. Goss says he and Mrs. Pelosi were told at the 2002 briefing about the use of the EITs and “on a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission.” He is backed by CIA sources who say Mr. Goss and Mrs. Pelosi “questioned whether we were doing enough” to extract information.
Haven’t seen anything more detailed out of Goss. Then there is Panetta, the Democratic Californian Obama apointee who delivered what Pelosi is calling lies. So far they both appear content to let her dangle.
Here’s CIA flack George Little’s response today, by the way:
“It is not the policy of this agency to mislead the United States Congress.”
OK, so if various parties in the know come out and call her a big fat liar, does that mean she’s done or just that new heights of shamelessness are achieved?
It would be tragic and bitterly ironic if the highest United States official to pay for the Bush adminsitration’s harsh interrogation policies were the Democratic House Speaker.
This might be relevant. Here’s Steny Hoyer, the guy Pelosi didn’t want for number two when she was pushing that libelmongering pork-enthusiast Murtha, on the House floor re Pelosi’s current woes. Politico:
Rep. Cantor: “I share with the gentleman the notion we need to follow the law. But if there is somehow a belief, and I’d ask the gentleman whether he shares this belief, that somehow the CIA or others have intentionally misled this body, because that seems to be some concern that has been raised today? And I yield.”
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: “I have no idea of that, don’t have a belief of that nature because I have no basis on which to base such a belief. And I certainly hope that’s not the case. I don’t draw that conclusion.
So Hoyer has no basis on which to base a belief that the CIA has misled Congress. He certainly hopes that’s not the case. He doesn’t draw that conclusion.
That sounds a lot like the sound you hear when a House Speaker gets thrown under a bus.
HotAir’s got your vid: Pelosi goes nuclear. You know, I think I like it better spelled “nucular” just like George Bush used to say it.
Balloon Juice is always good to check in on for elastic, inflatable logic.
I would be flabbergasted to learn that the Democrats knew nothing. I would suspect they were told the minimum and everyone involved liked it that way, given the political climate at the time.
CYA deniability being SOP? Doesn’t sound like very responsible representation. Then again, we are talking about the people who wanted to abandon millions of people to chaos and genocide, render the sacrifice of thousands of Americans meaningless, and allow Iran to dominate the Middle East, all to satisfy their narrow political agenda. Sorry, I shouldn’t get started on that track …
Riehl: Exit strategy, make it about Bush and the CIA. Why not, it’s worked before.
Gateway with more on Pelosi’s claims of what lying liars the CIA are, plus more fun responses.
Can this be real? Pelosi, via Blackfive, “I was fighting a war in Iraq at that point, too, you know.”
Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard notes the House Speaker has taken having been lied to by the nation’s premier intelligence agency pretty quietly until now.
Malkin on the dangerous blame game.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:16 pm on Thursday, May 14, 2009
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