I've never been a fan of Nancy Pelosi. She always appears to have a haughty sense of moral superiority that I find most unappealing and condescending.
I stopped respecting her in November 2006 when she declared that "impeachment was off the table" in respect of President George Bush.
We now find Pelosi embroiled in a debate into what she knew and when she knew it regarding torture - aka "enhanced interrogation techniques". She claims that the CIA misled her and other lawmakers about the use of waterboarding and other enhanced interogation techniques some seven years ago.
"Yes I am saying the CIA was misleading the Congress, and at the same time the (Bush) administration was misleading the Congress on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, to which I said that this intelligence doesn't support the imminent threat," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference (5/14/09). "Every step of the way the administration was misleading the Congress and that is the issue and that's why we need a truth commission," she said.
According to a CNN report: The CIA-prepared memo, provided to CNN by Republican sources, lists 40 briefings for members of Congress from September 2002 to March 2009. The first briefing on the list -- on September 4, 2002 -- was for then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss and Pelosi, then the ranking Democrat on the committee. The subject of the briefing is listed as EITs, or enhanced interrogation techniques, "including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of the particular EITs that had been employed."
One can't help wondering if Pelosi said impeachment was off the table for Bush simply because she knew early on what he and his cronies was really up to ....!!!
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