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BlueJessamine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:29 AM
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Rove: Pelosi was an accomplice to 'torture.'

Pigboy Rove: Nancy Pelosi was an accomplice to 'torture.'



by karl

Someone important appears not to be telling the truth about her knowledge of the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). That someone is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The political persecution of Bush administration officials she has been pushing may now ensnare her.

Here's what we know. On Sept. 4, 2002, less than a year after 9/11, the CIA briefed Rep. Porter Goss, then House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Mrs. Pelosi, then the committee's ranking Democrat, on EITs including waterboarding. They were the first members of Congress to be informed.

In December 2007, Mrs. Pelosi admitted that she attended the briefing, but she wouldn't comment for the record about precisely what she was told. At the time the Washington Post spoke with a "congressional source familiar with Pelosi's position on the matter" and summarized that person's comments this way: "The source said Pelosi recalls that techniques described by the CIA were still in the planning stage -- they had been designed and cleared with agency lawyers but not yet put in practice -- and acknowledged that Pelosi did not raise objections at the time."

When questions were raised last month about these statements, Mrs. Pelosi insisted at a news conference that "We were not -- I repeat -- were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used." Mrs. Pelosi also claimed that the CIA "did not tell us they were using that, flat out. And any, any contention to the contrary is simply not true." She had earlier said on TV, "I can say flat-out, they never told us that these enhanced interrogations were being used."

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So is the speaker of the House lying about what she knew and when? And, if so, what will Democrats do about it?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124226863721018193.html


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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:31 AM
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1. The disassociation this guy is capable of is stunning. DUers who bought into this theory should
realize they're being played.

Suckers.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:32 AM
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2. Rove why isn't this POS in jail.
criminal.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:36 AM
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3. karl is a ratfucker
no one should listen to a ratfucker.
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Puzzler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:39 AM
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4. OK Rove... then what does it make you and Bush?
.
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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:45 AM
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5. Diversion. Wonder if he is also a pickpocket?

Wonder what the hell else he is up to now?
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:47 AM
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6. No Rove, YOU were.
It looks like the Swine Flu is still trying to infect people. With strawmen.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:52 AM
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7. So in his element.
Nothing is too low for him.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 08:55 AM
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8. Okay, NOW I think Pelosi is innocent. I always believe the opposite of what KKKarl Rove says. n/t
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 09:16 AM
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9. You go after the perpetrator first the accomplice second. If there is no
perpetrator/crime there is no accomplice.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-14-09 09:35 AM
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10. But what is she an "accomplice" TO?!!! Just YESTERDAY he was saying THEY DIDN'T TORTURE!!!
Edited on Thu May-14-09 09:36 AM by TankLV
So what's she guilty of?!!!

And if we take TODAY'S spew as FACT, does that mean that rove was LYING BEFORE and he's a WAR CRIMINAL, too?!!!

ooooo - my head hurts...
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