MioMyo
2009-05-08 12:24:34 UTC
Regarding her knowledge in 2002 of Enhanced Interrogations Used on
alqeada.......
But I will enjoy hearing the wailing & the whining from all the usual
dembulb usenet sycophants anyway.....
ROFLMFAO.............
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/05/cia_says_pelosi_was_briefed_on.html
CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'
By Paul Kane
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use
of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly
contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was
never told that these techniques were actually being used.
In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified
briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss
(R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the
interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4,
2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central
Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered
"EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah." EIT is an acronym for
enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable
al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic
known as water boarding used against him.
The issue of what Pelosi knew and when she knew it has become a matter of
heated debate on Capitol Hill. Republicans have accused her of knowing for
many years precisely the techniques CIA agents were using in interrogations,
and only protesting the tactics when they became public and liberal antiwar
activists protested.
In a carefully worded statement, Pelosi's office said today that she had
never been briefed about the use of waterboarding, only that it had been
approved by Bush administration lawyers as a legal technique to use in
interrogations.
"As this document shows, the Speaker was briefed only once, in September
2002. The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but
said that waterboarding had not yet been used," said Brendan Daly, Pelosi's
spokesman.
Pelosi's statement did not address whether she was informed that other harsh
techniques were already in use during the Zubaydah interrogations.
In December 2007 the Washington Post reported that leaders of the House and
Senate intelligence committees had been briefed in the fall of 2002 about
waterboarding -- which simulates drowning -- and other techniques, and that
no congressional leaders protested its use. At the time Pelosi said she was
not told that waterboarding was being used, a position she stood by
repeatedly last month when the Bush-era Justice Department legal documents
justifying the interrogation tactics were released by Attorney General Eric
Holder.
The new memo shows that intelligence officials were willing to share the
information about waterboarding with only a sharply closed group of people.
Three years after the initial Pelosi-Goss briefing, Bush officials still
limited interrogation technique briefings to just the chairman and ranking
member of the House and Senate intelligence committees, the so-called Gang
of Four in the intelligence world.
In October 2005, CIA officials began briefing other congressional leaders
with oversight of the intelligence community, including top appropriators
who provided the agency its annual funding. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a
prisoner-of-war in Vietnam and an opponent of torture techniques, was also
read into the program at that time even though he did not hold a special
committee position overseeing the intelligence community.
alqeada.......
But I will enjoy hearing the wailing & the whining from all the usual
dembulb usenet sycophants anyway.....
ROFLMFAO.............
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/05/cia_says_pelosi_was_briefed_on.html
CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'
By Paul Kane
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use
of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly
contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was
never told that these techniques were actually being used.
In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified
briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss
(R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the
interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4,
2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central
Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered
"EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah." EIT is an acronym for
enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable
al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic
known as water boarding used against him.
The issue of what Pelosi knew and when she knew it has become a matter of
heated debate on Capitol Hill. Republicans have accused her of knowing for
many years precisely the techniques CIA agents were using in interrogations,
and only protesting the tactics when they became public and liberal antiwar
activists protested.
In a carefully worded statement, Pelosi's office said today that she had
never been briefed about the use of waterboarding, only that it had been
approved by Bush administration lawyers as a legal technique to use in
interrogations.
"As this document shows, the Speaker was briefed only once, in September
2002. The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but
said that waterboarding had not yet been used," said Brendan Daly, Pelosi's
spokesman.
Pelosi's statement did not address whether she was informed that other harsh
techniques were already in use during the Zubaydah interrogations.
In December 2007 the Washington Post reported that leaders of the House and
Senate intelligence committees had been briefed in the fall of 2002 about
waterboarding -- which simulates drowning -- and other techniques, and that
no congressional leaders protested its use. At the time Pelosi said she was
not told that waterboarding was being used, a position she stood by
repeatedly last month when the Bush-era Justice Department legal documents
justifying the interrogation tactics were released by Attorney General Eric
Holder.
The new memo shows that intelligence officials were willing to share the
information about waterboarding with only a sharply closed group of people.
Three years after the initial Pelosi-Goss briefing, Bush officials still
limited interrogation technique briefings to just the chairman and ranking
member of the House and Senate intelligence committees, the so-called Gang
of Four in the intelligence world.
In October 2005, CIA officials began briefing other congressional leaders
with oversight of the intelligence community, including top appropriators
who provided the agency its annual funding. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a
prisoner-of-war in Vietnam and an opponent of torture techniques, was also
read into the program at that time even though he did not hold a special
committee position overseeing the intelligence community.