What is it, exactly, that the Republicans want to investigate Nancy Pelosi for?

I'm really not understanding what even CAN be investigated here. The briefings were classified. What else is there?

so that's a start.

(They got nothin'.)

This is just another stupid PR stunt. There is nothing they can investigate. The meeting was classified, no notes were taken, no aides were permitted, no records were kept.

The big, scary word, "investigation," means she's guilty of something, though. That's how they play the game. Dirty.

How dare she!

back then. Therefore she was complicit in what she's now calling illegal torture.

I think they're hoping that all investigations will somehow grind to a screeching halt at Pelosi's front door.

and for a scapegoat

crimes... but they were perfectly legal and the really responsible thing to do. And for holding the position of Speaker... which was held by a totally different person during the time they're complaining about... but not.

Yeah, I don't really get their position, either.

It is about the most ridiculous stunt I've seen them pull, and they have some done some pretty ridiculous stunts.

They are just throwing that word out there to make the public think she did something wrong by being briefed about the Bush administration's "legal" "enhanced interrogation techniques" and then not standing up as the minority member of the intel committee and breaking the law by divulging classifed information, then single-handedly not stopping the Bush administration from breaking the law which they said they weren't and then not standing on the steps of the Capitol and objecting to the very methods and policies that kept us SAFE FOR EIGHT YEARS!!! Got that? OK, good.

people would be looking at the actual issue of BushCo's crimes and fraking out over that.

It's the reason she didn't impeach Bush IMHO was because she would be implicated in knowing about the war crimes that she couldn't talk about because the information was classified. I was always suspicious because her excuses for not impeaching didn't ring true. It seemed like she was covering her ass. Like a true politician she wouldn't do the right thing by impeaching and letting the chips fall where they may. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. The Repugs of course are only making themselves look like total asses. They got away with these tactics with Clinton's impeachment, but in the past decade of Bush's criminal mismanagement of the country is making people take a harder look at what they are doing. They won't succeed, but Nancy may be looking at her last term because I feel her San Francisco constituency are considering this the last straw. The Repugs won't bring Nancy down but her own district voters will.

about illegal acts. It may be that you can be punished for disclosing classified information, but if classification is used to cover a crime, she wouldn't be sentenced.

power. They would have dropped a metaphorical cement block on her. However, she should have impeached once the Democrats gained control of the House. It would have been harder for them to drop that block because then all the eyes would be on them and the impeachment. Of course she knew that, so I believe her motives were more sinister to cover her ass so that this information that she knew about possible water boarding wouldn't get out like it would in impeachment hearings. Well, it got out anyway, so I think La Pelosi's goose is cooked among the Democrats unless she pulls the right rabbit out of her hat. What the Republicans do from now on is really irrelevant unless they go directly to the fact that she should have impeached and that isn't going to happen, ever.

of our media.

<<It's the reason she didn't impeach Bush IMHO was because she would be implicated in knowing about the war crimes that she couldn't talk about because the information was classified.>>

I always thought they should have been impeached for lying us into a war. That to me is high treason, and screamed for impeachment. She wouldn't have had anything to cover for if she had gone after those lies. All the other crimes they committed were efforts to cover up the "real" crime of lying us into a war.

come up in the hearings including the possible water boarding and that she knew about it. I think what she did was cynical and self-serving and she probably thought it would never come to light once the Bush administration was out of the White House and walking into the sunset.