Nancy Pelosi draws fire over CIA claims from Politico reports on the growing storm over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's changing accounts of what she knew and when she knew it over CIA interrogations of detainees.
Given that the GOP is afraid to lay a glove on President Obama, Speaker Pelosi has been a great target and she hasn't failed to deliver for the opposition, rankling even her own party and providing welcome distraction from the White House's shifting views.
Hoping to quell a “what did she know and when did she know it” furor over so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, Pelosi told reporters Thursday that CIA officials “misled” her during a September 2002 briefing by telling her that waterboarding had not been used on terror detainees.
“The only mention of waterboarding in the briefing was that it was not being employed,” Pelosi said during a press briefing. The California Democrat said that the CIA briefers had given her “inaccurate and incomplete information.” Asked whether they’d “lied” to her, Pelosi nodded her head yes.
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