I just watched the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, third in line of succession to leading this country resort to the defense a six-year-old caught stealing cookies might employ. Someone lied to her to about waterboarding. The CIA didn’t tell her that there were legal opponents to the practice at the justice Department, they didn’t tell her that they had already begun waterboarding, and that it wasn’t her place to oppose waterboarding.<\/p>\n
She was sputtering and spitting every time someone asked her a question. I guess when you’ve given four stories for the same event, it’s hard to keep them straight.<\/p>\n
The press actually appeared to be indignant over her lack of real answers, let’s see if they follow through. Well, maybe a little<\/a>;<\/p>\n “To the contrary … we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used,” she told reporters, referring to a formal CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002.<\/p>\n Pelosi said she subsequently learned that other lawmakers were told several months later by the CIA about the use of waterboarding.<\/p>\n “I wasn’t briefed, I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Somebody else – like her aide? Why didn’t she attend since she was the chair of the committee?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"