Pelosi: CIA Briefing Notes Should Be Released

[Joanne98]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Thursday for the release of notes from a CIA briefing in 2002. Pelosi, a California Democrat, said that the agency is lying when it says that she was briefed on the ongoing use of waterboarding and that, rather, she was only told that the administration had determined that they could use the technique in the future.

The notes, she said, would show that she is telling the truth. "I would be very happy if they would release the briefings," she said.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who read those notes at CIA headquarters last Thursday, did not dispute her characterization. Hoekstra was asked, after Pelosi's comments, if the notes would show her to have been untruthful.

"I'm not going to make that judgment based on those materials. I think there's a lot of information that needs to be available to us to get into that," he said. Hoekstra is preparing a "broader document release request from the CIA," he added, and will be requesting notes from before and after the meeting to attempt to ascertain the purpose of the briefing.

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[GreenTea]

1. Pelosi is being set up as is very clear by Bob Graham's statements

And why not, the slimy lying republicans have to do something to stop all this deserved pounding they are receiving, so why not lie as they always do and say "Well Pelosi knew" fucking republicans lying assholes....the republican don't tell the Dems shit certainly they wouldn't inform them when they are knowingly breaking the law on torture the sick fucks!

“I have no recollection during the briefing that I did receive on September 27 of ‘02 that the issue of waterboarding Zubaydah or other extreme interrogation techniques was discussed,” Graham added, referring to one of the Bush administration’s al Qaeda detainees. “I think I have a pretty good memory and if something as dramatic as that had been discussed at any level of specificity I would not only have remembered it but would have been motivated to do something about it.

Graham’s remarks were first reported by Marcy Wheeler at FireDogLake.

Asked about what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was informed about during her briefing on the subject, Graham said he didn’t know. Pelosi, who was briefed on the program in 2002, says she was never told the administration was waterboarding suspects.

“I don’t know precisely what she was told because according to the CIA’s report they briefed the House and the Senate leadership in separate events approximately three weeks apart,” Graham replied.

“I’m a little surprised that Phil, who I know and have a high regard for, would accept at face value what the people were saying about this subject when at the very same time they were telling us that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq for which there was virtually no credible evidence,” Graham added.

The Florida Democrat also expounded on the process by which congressmembers were briefed.