Pelosi Starts Variety Show. Featured Act: Tap Dancing

I wonder if she’ll call for the rounding up of herself? After all, Democrats have requested the heads of pretty much everyone on a silver platter; maybe it’s time we have hers, too? After all, she seems at least partially responsible for the torture she so wants to punish everyone else for.

If they commit a crime and you know and don’t stop it, you’re an accessory, Speaker Pelosi.

If they go to jail, so should you.

Under a barrage of questioning, Pelosi also again adamantly insisted that she was not aware that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques were being used on terrorism suspects and

“I am telling you they told me they approved these and said they wanted to use them but said they were not using waterboarding,” she said.

Growing increasingly frustrated throughout the briefing, Pelosi slowly started backing away from the podium as she tried to end the questioning. As she backed out, she continued to accuse the CIA of not telling Congress that dissenting opinions had been filed within the administration suggesting the methods were not lawful.

Pelosi said she was only briefed once on the interrogation methods in September 2002 and acknowledged that her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, informed her about another briefing five months later in which Bush officials said waterboarding was being used on CIA terror detainee Abu Zubaydah.

Pelosi said she supported a letter drafted by Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee who also attended the briefing in February 2003, and sent to the Bush administration, raising concerns over the technique.

Pelosi’s account has changed several times in recent weeks as she has sought to clarify what she did or didn’t know about these interrogation methods that she is pushing to investigate.

Pelosi said last month that she was never told that the controversial interrogation methods were being used. But a national intelligence report showed that she was briefed seven years ago on the tactics while she was on the House Intelligence Committee.

via Fox News, incidentally the only outlet with this account.

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  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ Reaganite Republican Resistanc

    Apparently Pelosi and Obama forgot something: the CIA KILLS people… it’s in their job description.

    Did those two really think that these killers were going to just meekly take-one-for-the-team… when the team captain is a lying, incompetent, arrogant nebbish who has basically told them they need to kiss his ring? -please

    Obama really kicked an ant hill with his ill-advised and politically motivated release of Bush Administration memos regarding EITs- I’m sure he already regrets it.

    Let’s have a hearing and get it all out there, shall we? Then watch the rats scatter who attacked Bush for protecting the country from terrorist attack… but who clearly knew what was going on five years before we heard a peep out of them.

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ Reaganite Republican Resistance

    Apparently Pelosi and Obama forgot something: the CIA KILLS people… it’s in their job description.

    Did those two really think that these killers were going to just meekly take-one-for-the-team… when the team captain is a lying, incompetent, arrogant nebbish who has basically told them they need to kiss his ring? -please

    Obama really kicked an ant hill with his ill-advised and politically motivated release of Bush Administration memos regarding EITs- I’m sure he already regrets it.

    Let’s have a hearing and get it all out there, shall we? Then watch the rats scatter who attacked Bush for protecting the country from terrorist attack… but who clearly knew what was going on five years before we heard a peep out of them.

  • Eriq

    Wow, she is really getting kicked around lately, I wonder if her time is coming to a close http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/18/gop-fanning-flames-of-the-pelosi-cia-furor/

    • http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/ Vinny

      It’s her own damn fault. When you start ripping into people as criminals and offering up criminal charges and investigations, you’d better be sure you weren’t hiding your knowledge of their actions or you’re an accessory. She’s painted herself into one hell of a corner. They committed a crime according to her; so if they committed a crime and you obviously knew about it, you’re an accessory.

      Funny how she’s acting all indignant about it, but meanwhile everyone’s using her own admissions to snag her.

      The problem is that the media seems to want to play this as a power struggle of equals between the CIA and Pelosi, rather than playing it as “she’s caught unless she has a damned good story to prove otherwise.”

  • Eriq

    Wow, she is really getting kicked around lately, I wonder if her time is coming to a close http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/18/gop-fanning-flames-of-the-pelosi-cia-furor/

    • http://www.insignificantthoughts.com Vinny

      It’s her own damn fault. When you start ripping into people as criminals and offering up criminal charges and investigations, you’d better be sure you weren’t hiding your knowledge of their actions or you’re an accessory. She’s painted herself into one hell of a corner. They committed a crime according to her; so if they committed a crime and you obviously knew about it, you’re an accessory.

      Funny how she’s acting all indignant about it, but meanwhile everyone’s using her own admissions to snag her.

      The problem is that the media seems to want to play this as a power struggle of equals between the CIA and Pelosi, rather than playing it as “she’s caught unless she has a damned good story to prove otherwise.”