Virtually all polticians in Congress, both Democrats and Republicans lie and exhibit levels of incompetency. Too bad we don’t vote these incumbants out of office and replace them with country first public servants, regardless of poltical party or persusasion.
Therefore, it comes to no surprise to me when the Speaker of the House of Representatives gets caught lying. I’ve heard certain TV pundits and some bloggers call Nancy Pelosi “stupid.” For me, the word incompetent, is more accurate. She reminds me of a young child who lies and attempts to cover the lies with more lies. Her lying is merely one symptom of her incompetency.
Hoping to deal with the “what did she know and when did she know it” question over ”enhanced interrogation techniques”, Pelosi told reporters Thursday that CIA officials “misled” her during a September 2002 briefing by telling her that waterboarding had not been used on terror detainees.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she was not told that waterboarding had been used and said an aide informed her of its use after other lawmakers had been briefed by the CIA in 2003. Pelosi says the CIA misled her and that she had no idea techniques such as waterboarding were being used. Republicans say Pelosi is being dishonest. The head of the CIA has defended his agency.
Under pressure from Rebublicans for what she knew about harsh questioning of terror detainees, Pelosi on Thursday acknowledged that she had learned in 2003 that the C.I.A. had subjected suspects to waterboarding, but she asserted that the agency had misled Congress about its techniques. She accused the C.I.A. and Bush administration of lying to Congress about what was actually transpiring with the detainees.
The C.I.A., reacting to Ms. Pelosi’s remarks, said that agency records declassified last week and cited by congressional Republicans show that Ms. Pelosi had taken part in a September 2002 briefing on interrogation techniques was “true to the language in the Agency’s records.” An agency spokesman, George Little, added that the C.I.A. director, Leon E. Panetta, had pointed out in a recent letter to Congress that the information “is drawn from the past files of the C.I.A.” and represented contemporaneous memoranda “and notes that summarized the best recollections of those individuals.”
According to the C.I.A. records, Ms. Pelosi attended the Sept. 4 briefing about the agency’s interrogation techniques with her Republican counterpart, Representative Porter J. Goss of Florida. Based on agency notes from the briefing, the two lawmakers were told the specific techniques “that had been employed” on Abu Zubaydah.
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Silver Fox
She did not know what it was. She thought it was a sport like snow boarding.
You need to understand her under-developted mind. Poor Nancy!
Yeah, Nancy is really into those X-Sports such as snow boarding, skateboarding, and who knows – perhaps water boarding too. LOL