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pc258 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0409/Pel...
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Pelosi briefed on waterboarding in '02 [UPDATED]
Nancy Pelosi denies knowing U.S. officials used waterboarding — but GOP operatives are pointing to a 2007 Washington Post story which describes an hour-long 2002 briefing in which Pelosi was told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.
Two unnamed officials told the paper that Pelosi, then a member of the Democratic minority, didn't raise substantial objections.
Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen wrote:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.-
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cushi8 months, 1 week ago
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Pelosi said they were told that water boarding was one of the methods of interrogation they were CONSIDERING, and that NO SUCH ACTION would take place until the legalities were reviewed AND without further notification. THERE IS A DISTINCTION TO BE MADE from YOUR DISINGENUOUS SPIN...
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There is a huge difference in knowing the practice was being used and knowing it was being considered, either you are too obtuse to recognize the difference, or you are deliberately distorting the facts. On numerous occasions, I've found you to be both!
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jovial8 months, 1 week ago
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You guys are having a party for your own funeral. If Pelosi goes down on this issue, you can bet a lot of Republicans are going down with her. At a time when the Republican Party is already on the ropes, i don't think you could aford to lose too many more Republican representatives. As long as this issue was being kept under wraps, you guys kept your chance to filibuster in the Senate. If we have to say "bye-bye" to acouple more Senators, I think this smug laugh you have now will turn into howling sadness. I thought most of you would rather be silent and hope this whole thing quietly goes away from a political standpoint. But then i think maybe you guys are more masochistic than I previously believed.
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