Tag Archives: Waterboarding

May 19 2009

Let’s Find Out Who’s Lying: Will it be Pelosi or will it be the CIA?

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Susan Estrich: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now claims that intelligence officials misled her about the use of waterboarding when she was briefed in 2002.

Previously, it was reported that she, as the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee at the time, had been told about waterboarding as an interrogation technique and had raised no objections to it — a claim that obviously called into question the speaker’s support for a “truth commission” to find out who (else) took that position.

“We were told that they had legal opinions that it was legal and were not told about other legal opinions to the contrary,” Pelosi told reporters this week, describing the briefing. “We were told specifically that waterboarding was not being used.”

Pelosi claimed that she learned about CIA waterboarding later from other members of Congress. “I wasn’t briefed. I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it,” she said. Read the rest here

If I were a betting man I would say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lied! How would you bet?

May 15 2009

Nancy Pelosi is hampers our ability to carry out critical national security operations.

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Barack Obama warned Democrats in Congress against making a partisan cause out of the Bush administration’s harsh interrogation tactics.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ignoring him — loudly — and the party, from the president on down, may pay the price.
So far, it’s Pelosi who’s suffered the greatest harm.
But the biggest sign that the effort could backfire politically came from President Obama.

On April 21, addressing congressional proposals for a bipartisan commission to study the interrogations, the president said: “I do worry about this getting so politicized that we cannot function effectively and it hampers our ability to carry out critical national security operations.” Read More

Obama is staying away from this fight between Pelosi and the CIA. I think he was the one that started this interrogation investigation and now backing off letting other democrats do his dirty work. Its time for House Speaker Pelosi to go, she is a disgrace to the position!

Apr 24 2009

Barack Obama Resists Democrats’ Push for Interrogation

In a closed-door meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders Thursday, President Obama reportedly resisted pressure from Democrats to investigate Bush-era interrogation techniques while questioning former Vice President Dick Cheney’s call for the release of more internal memos that Cheney says will show the benefits of the tactics used on high-value detainees.

When House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, asked Obama to release more memos at the meeting, Obama said Cheney is only telling one side of the story, one senior Senate Democratic leadership aide told FOX News.

Obama “suggested that the situation is not quite that cut and dry,” the aide said.

Aides who attended the meeting also said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told Obama she wants a “Truth Commission” to investigate Bush-era interrogation policies — an option that has the backing of a number of congressional Democrats — but Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., apparently didn’t embrace the idea. Read More

Obama must not want to release the good reports of what waterboarding did to save American lives! He should never have released any of our secrets to the terrorist which is what he did, making our Country more unsafe by doing so!

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Top legislators Democrats and Republicans Approved interrogations
The CIA briefed top Democrats and Republicans on the congressional intelligence committees more than 30 times about enhanced interrogation techniques, according to intelligence sources who said the lawmakers tacitly approved the techniques that some Democrats in Congress now say should land Bush administration officials in jail.

Seeking the facts about congressional approval, Mr. Hoekstra, the ranking member of the House committee, sent a letter Monday asking National Intelligence Director Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral, to provide an unclassified list of the dates, locations and names of all members of Congress who were briefed on the techniques. Read On