A little advice for reporters: Don’t bother asking Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi about the CIA anymore.
She’s finished lying talking about those lying liars. She’s lied said all she’s going to lie say. And that’s that.
Queen Nancy hath lied spoken.
Source: Gateway Pundit
According to a report from the Director of National Intelligence, Democrat House Speaker Pelosi was fully-briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” way back in September of 2002.
Of course, this flies in the face of Pelosi’s subsequent statement that she knew nothing about waterboarding or any other “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
What? How could this be? A Pelosi spokesman said Madame Speaker thought the techniques were legal and, my oh my, she never knew waterboarding was used.
“As this document shows, the speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002,” the spokesman said. “The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used.”
Pelosi wants to establish an independent commission to investigate anyone and everyone involved in the drafting the of interrogation methods. Everyone who has an (R) after their name, that is.
Question: How can you tell when Nancy Pelosi is lying? Answer: She moves her lips.
Source: FoxNews.com
Professor, diplomat, author, national security expert and 66th US Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, gave this know-it-all liberal student a little lesson in the trouble of dealing with religious fanatics. Enhanced interrogation were legal and they worked.
So much for “looking forward”.
Well, if government officials are to be prosecuted for approving “torture,” shouldn’t we include Congress? After all, Congress was fully briefed and approved of the “enhanced” interrogation tactics used by the CIA. But then, that would mean Congress would have to investigate and prosecute itself. You know, kind of like Barney Frank fixing the financial mess he helped create.
The Wall Street Journal notes in its “Presidential Poison” editorial that Bush officials won’t (or shouldn’t) be the only ones on the hot seat if this goes forward: “Congress will face questions about what the Members knew and when, especially Nancy Pelosi when she was on the House Intelligence Committee in 2002.
The Speaker now says she remembers hearing about waterboarding, though not that it would actually be used. Porter Goss, her GOP counterpart at the time, says he knew exactly what he was hearing and that, if anything, Ms. Pelosi worried the CIA wasn’t doing enough to stop another attack. By all means, put her under oath.
Here’s an idea that might help jog Pelosi’s memory as to what she actually heard and approved:
Waterboard ‘er.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying in Congress yesterday. It wasn’t pretty.
When long-time conservative California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher asked her about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request to release additional CIA interrogation documents, Hillary tried to deflect the question by saying, “I don’t find him to be a particularly reliable source of information.”
Rohrabacher jumped on her like a bulldog on a bone. It was a thing of beauty. What Rohrabacher did, not Hillary.
“Mademe Secretary, I asked you a specific question…we’re not asking your opinion of Dick Cheney…you want to maintain your credibility with us, what is your opinion on the release of those documents”
The woman didn’t answer, wouldn’t answer, couldn’t answer, all of the above.
Source: CNN via BluegrassPundit.com
The reason for Obama’s appearance at CIA headquarters was to explain his release of OLC memos that tell terrorists exactly how to train against U.S. interrogation methods.
You may be wondering, how will we defeat jihadists now that they know how far we’re willing to go to extract information? Better technology? Better weapons? An army of lawyers armed with lawsuits?
Here’s how Obama explained his reason for releasing the OLC memos and how he plans to wage the War on Terror, or whatever it’s called now:
“I believe that our nation is stronger and more secure when we deploy the full measure of both our power and the power of our values –- including the rule of law.”
Bask for a moment in the power of our values. It sure put a quick stop to those Somali pirates, didn’t it?
Don’t you feel safer already?
Source: WhiteHouse.gov
