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mesodude7 months ago
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I've got your "retreat" right *here,* pc. ;-P
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Pelosi: ‘At Every Step Of The Way, The Administration Was Misleading The Congress’
"In the Wall Street Journal this morning, Karl Rove declared that House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi (D-CA) was “an accomplice to ‘torture,’” repeating the right wing’s latest talking point that Pelosi is responsible for Bush’s torture program and should be demonized — even as Rove insists it wasn’t really “torture” and actually was a really great program.
This morning, Pelosi held a press conference to address these allegations. Reading a statement, she said that the CIA had told her in September 2002 — falsely — that waterboarding was not being used:
PELOSI: The CIA briefed me only once on enhanced interrogation techniques in September 2002, in my capacity as ranking member of the intelligence committee. I was informed then that the Department of Justice opinions had concluded that the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques were legal. The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed. [...]
We also now know that techniques including waterboarding had already been employed and that those briefing me had given me inaccurate and incomplete information. At the same time the Bush administration…was misleading the American people about the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Indeed, we now know that the CIA had waterboarded Abu Zubaydah 83 times in August, 2002, after receiving approval from Condoleezza Rice in July.
Pelosi also accused the CIA and the Bush administration of repeatedly misleading Congress and the American people, and repeated her call for a truth commission to examine the issue:
PELOSI: So on the subject of what’s happening in Iraq, when it’s talking about the techniques used by the intelligence community on those they’re interrogating, at every step of the way, the administration was misleading the Congress. And that is the issue. And that is why we need a truth commission to look into the issue.
REPORTER: So Madame Speaker, just to be clear, you’re accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2002?
PELOSI: Yes. Misleading the Congress of the United States.
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PapaWolf7 months ago
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How is it blowing up? The Dems are still holding hearings - didn't you see clips of the one from yesterday w/an FBI interrogator who said ti WAS torture, that he got more out of the prisoner with his standard techniques, & the prisoner clammed up after he was waterboarding.
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And if I have to chose between believing Pelosi & or Rove, who we KNOW lies thru his teeth, I'll take Pelosi.-
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mesodude6 months, 4 weeks ago
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"Meso, I grow tired of your baseless accusations. Let me know when it finally sinks in that I had many problems with Bush."
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--Oh, lighten up, tangy. I don't know what you supported. I just like to say that because I know you'll overreact like you just did. Anyway, it doesn't really matter. If you had misgivings about some of what occurred under the Bush administration, that's precisely the reason you shouldn't be rushing to judgment. I'm astonished at how many cons are pretending they don't know about missing billions in Iraq, missing millions of White House email, and a Justice Department that was being used as a tool for political gain. Those things (among many others) are examples of how unclean Bush and Cheney are and that's why you people shouldn't be claiming you know this or that for a fact. You've been proven wrong too many times.
That most cons here are doing what they always do--supporting the GOP no matter what is just more proof that you'll do anything to hold onto power. This is all coming out and the Republican party will shrink even smaller. It's not looking good for you guys at all.
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mesodude6 months, 4 weeks ago
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"she is a lying sack of steaming sh... I hope she takes on the CIA ........she is going to loose that......this is blowing up in the DEMS face. big time........"
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--Nancy seems calm, cool, and very much in control (as does Obama). You cons, otoh, seem just a little bit unstable, pc. Might wanna get counseling for your anger issues. ;-P-
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Hhussk6 months, 4 weeks ago
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--Nancy seems calm, cool, and very much in control (as does Obama). You cons, otoh, seem just a little bit unstable, pc. Might wanna get counseling for your anger issues. ;-P
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LOL. Obviously you didn't see her press conference. It's all over the news about how terrible she handled herself.
Of course, I'm sure you're still cheerleading.
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