Was Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House when congress was briefed?

[maynard]

Where was Dennis Hastert in all of this? Why is she the only taking the hit?

[ananda]

1. No. Hastert was.

Yeah, why aren't Reeps taking the heat for this too?

Good question.

Answer on a postcard: Reep mentality still rules.

[spanone]

2. nancy pelosi was minority whip at the time....same as eric cantor is now

but she's a democrat so the entire torture program is her fault....:sarcasm:

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Congress has never been briefed on the enhanced techniques. Only certain members of the

oversight committees.

[Old Codger]

4. Although

She is now speaker, she has only been speaker since the Dems retook control of congress... This is a red herring/misdirection effort on the part of the repugs in a lame attempt to draw attention away from their overall complicity in this mess...If in fact she had knowledge of laws being broken she is guilty of at least malfeasance and dereliction of duty as a congress person. All peoples involved should be charged accordingly.

[sammythecat]

8. My thoughts as well

especially the "If in fact" and "accordingly" parts.

[Old Codger]

11. You Bet

All guilty parties should be charged and punished according to the law. We NEED a special prosecutor to be installed and given Carte Blanche to investigate out in the open, no secrecy no special favors nothing but the truth and transparency throughout.

[OHDEM]

5. Because the GOP told the media it's all Pelosi's fault and...

...they're going for it. AS USUAL! It's like the "Al Gore is a Liar" story that went on and on even when the man was telling the truth!

Indeed where is the GOP Congressional leadership on this? And still more important than that - WHO ORDERED TORTURE? WHO ENDORSED IT?

We need to go after the Bush war criminals and start telling the MSM to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses! :mad:

[blogslut]

6. Would Hastert have been briefed?

I honestly do not know. What I do know is the chair of the House Intelligence at that time was Porter Goss - the man who started this whole Nancy-knew-it-too crap.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. I think the Republican stance is that there is nothing wrong with the torture, but

even if there was, it is hypocritical for the Democrats to be yelling about it now because they knew about it & condoned it too.

[Zen Democrat]

9. The chair and ranking members of Intell Committees in House and Senate were briefed.

In 2002, Democrats controlled the Senate and Republicans controlled the House.

In the House, Porter Goss was chair of the Intelligence Committee and Nancy Pelosi was ranking member.

In the Senate, Bob Graham chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence, and Richard Shelby was vice-chair.

I think the media is muting Bob Graham's challenge that the CIA was mistaken about two briefings in 2002 -- because the CIA backed down, probably due to Graham's reputation for record keeping.

[spanone]

10. the cia was mistaken about THREE of the four briefings

Several weeks ago, when this issue started to bubble up, I called the CIA and asked for the dates in which I had been briefed," Graham tells Robert Siegel. "They gave me four: two in April of '02, two in September."

Graham says he consulted his logs "and determined that on three of the four dates there was no briefing held."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104196363