Pelosi: I was Misled by the CIA!
During a weekly news conference, the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced some “enhanced” questioning by the press. Crumbling under the intense scrutiny, Pelosi instinctively attacked the Central Intelligence Agency and Bush administration in her own defense.
“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.
“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 added.
Under a barrage of questioning, Pelosi also again adamantly insisted that she was not aware that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques were being used on terrorism suspects and
“I am telling you they told me they approved these and said they wanted to use them but said they were not using waterboarding,” she said.
Ironically, Nancy didn’t suspect anything as the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee in 2002 when she was “informed” by the CIA they have the legal right to use these enhanced interrogation techniques but haven’t implemented them yet… or so SHE says.
Why didn’t she request or attend any further briefing on interrogation techniques while a member of the Intelligence Committee? Why didn’t she personally raise objection to the use of waterboarding when it was a fact a couple months later? Why didn’t she try to block funding for the C.I.A. programs associated with enhanced interrogation techniques?
“No letter could change the policy. It was clear we had to change the leadership in Congress and in the White House. That was my job — the Congress part.”
Oh, I see… Nancy was too busy campaigning.