Playing the Pelosi card (Lyons | Salon)

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What? CIA operatives concealed the truth about torture from a San Francisco liberal? No!
By Gene Lyons

... What? CIA operatives, faithful adherents of the Boy Scout oath, conceal the truth from a known San Francisco liberal? Who could believe such a thing? Not Rep. John Boehner, who demanded that Pelosi either prove the charge or resign. Gingrich also demanded a full-scale probe.

Pelosi, of course, has long sought an investigation of the Bush administration's use of torture, with particular reference to bogus intelligence. "Let's have an investigation," she keeps saying, "and see who's right."

Less high-minded GOP savants went to work on Pelosi's makeup, hair and clothing. That dashing babe-magnet, talk-radio comedian Limbaugh made Botox jokes. On CNN, chivalric Republican consultant Alex Castellanos quipped, "If Speaker Pelosi were still capable of human facial expression, we'd see she'd be embarrassed, because, right now, she is in a very Nixon-like position" ...

Here are some things we do know: In September 2002, Pelosi had zero authority over the CIA. Whatever briefings she received were classified ...

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