(Nancy Pelosi via Wikipedia)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed today that she was never briefed on the extreme techniques used by the C.I.A. to extract info. from captured terrorists—including waterboarding. Here is a link to the Washington Post Story that confirms that she along with other key congressional leaders were informed in 2002: Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
"The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough," said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.
Hat Tip to: Hugh Hewitt
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