Pelosi - "Bush Misled Me"

[MtnBiker]

Is there any liberal out there who actually belives the crap Pelosi is spreading?

The best we can hope for is that she loses the Speaker position. This idiocy has only made her look better to her moonbat constituents.




Pelosi: Bush's CIA misled me on waterboarding

Critics are calling for her scalp. Republicans are insisting that she be the first casualty of the controversy over torture.

And this morning, Karl Rove, the man responsible for getting George W. Bush elected to the White House, called her "an accomplice to torture."

So today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the podium to defend herself against a rising tide of criticism that she looked the other way when, as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, she was briefed on the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation" of terrorist suspects.

In a statement to reporters, she said that she was only briefed once by officials from Bush's CIA -- in September of 2002 -- and "the only mention of waterboarding was that it was not being deployed."

Now it turns out that waterboarding was being used, and Pelosi, like others in Congress, is urging a truth commission on torture to ferret out the details.

"They gave me inaccurate and incomplete information," she said, adding the CIA told they had legal opinions approving waterboarding but had not yet employed the tactic when in fact they had.

"This was the same time the Bush administration was misleading the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," she said. "They were misinforming me. At every step of the way, the [Bush] administration was misleading Congress."

As for her critics, she called the firestorm over her role "a diversionary tactic to take the spotlight off those who conceived and implemented this policy." She did not name names, but former Vice President Dick Cheney has been very vocal in defending the administration's decisions over torture.

But House Minority Leader John Boehner continued the drumbeat after Pelosi's remarks, saying, "It's hard to imagine anyone would mislead member of Congress." He also said Pelosi has changed her stories several times. "Let's find out who knew what and when," he said.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...-boarding.html



Could it be folks Ms Pelosi was for waterboarding before she was against it?

Or did she think the CIA agents were talking about surfing? After all that is the only kind of water board they have in San Francisco

"my job was to change the majority in congress"


Pelosi confirmed that her self interests in politics are more important than performing her representative duties.

"my job was to change the majority in congress"


Pelosi confirmed that her self interests in politics are more important than performing her representative duties.

Pelosi’s news conference today was like watching my car that got its head stuck in a box

She was twisting and pulling in a blind panic trying to get herself out of this mess she’s got herelf into because her own political motives.

How many times has her story changed due to evidence popping up, only to have still more evidence come to light and contradict her newly revised accounts?

Can we count of the AG Eric Holder to make sure if Pelosi has committted any crime she will be held accoutable?

Do not hold your breath on that one

Sems Nancy says she wants the briefings to be released

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Eh, Nancy the briefings were released


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*note - this OP was actually authored by RSR, there was a mix up with a merged thread