Greg Sargent None of the notes and memos that the CIA is aware of about the briefing Nancy Pelosi got on torture specified that she’d been briefed on the use of waterboarding, a CIA spokesperson confirms to me.
In the newly-released documents detailing the torture briefings given to members of Congress, the portion describing Pelosi’s single briefing says she was told about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques in general, but doesn’t specify whether she was told about the use of waterboarding. That was specified about some briefings given to others.
I asked CIA spokesperson Paul Gimigliano why. His answer: Because the notes and memos on the Pelosi meeting that form the basis for the docs didn’t allow them to go that far, meaning that they didn’t specify that she’d been briefed on waterboarding in particular.
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To be clear, this doesn’t prove conclusively that Pelosi, who says she was only told of the legality of techniques, wasn’t briefed on the use of waterboarding. But if she was, no one made a specific note of it in any of the records the CIA is aware of. GOP Rep Pete Hoekstra is claiming that he’s seen documents that prove she was told. But the CIA doesn’t seem to have a record specifying this.
So far, I have not seen them dispute the claim that Pelosi was never told that torture was happening.
My questions is: Why DIDN'T they tell HER?
If they were telling others in congress, why DIDN'T they tell her? Is it because they were afraid of what she, a Democrat, would do? Did they have a briefing with her to cover themselves, but left out the important info (that they were in fact torturing)?
All this stuff may actually show that they knew they were doing something wrong and only met with Pelosi a single time to say they did.
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