House Covers Pelosi’s Ass By Rejecting Probe Into Her CIA Claims
WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.
The House voted 252-172 to block the measure that would have created a bipartisan congressional panel. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, sponsored the resolution.
“This is partisan politics and an attempt by the Republicans to distract from the real issue of creating jobs and making progress on health care, energy and education,” said Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami.
Pelosi told reporters this month that she had not been told that waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects, even though it had been. President Barack Obama and human rights groups have said waterboarding, which simulates drowning, is torture.
“To have this charge out there and not have it resolved I think is damaging to our intelligence efforts, and certainly will have a chilling effect on our intelligence professionals around the world,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney also stepped into the debate.
In a speech at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Cheney said Pelosi and other lawmakers had been briefed on the interrogation techniques on “numerous occasions.”
“In my long experience in Washington, few matters have inspired so much contrived indignation and phony moralizing as the interrogation methods applied to a few captured terrorists,” Cheney said.
Pelosi has asked the CIA to declassify information supporting her claims.
The CIA has sent lawmakers its notes and memos on 40 congressional briefings on the interrogation techniques. But that document has been found to include several errors.
CIA Director Leon Panetta acknowledged in a May 6 letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, that the CIA’s list may not be completely accurate.
“In the end, you and the committee will have to determine whether this information is an accurate summary of what actually happened,” Panetta wrote.
Democrats also are pointing out that Republicans too have accused the CIA of misleading them on intelligence matters. Boehner himself called into question the soundness of the intelligence community when it determined in 2007 that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons program.
Boehner told reporters on Thursday that it was an unfair comparison because he never accused the men and women of the intelligence community of misleading Congress. (AP)
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I think this move speaks volumes, and corroborates their own filth. So, like other Democrats, she As is usually the case over the last 50 years, the left goes home to gourmet and laughter, the intelligence community especially over the last eight years, continues demoralized working 20 hour days, few vacations, trvaelling all over the world, and not one word is said that is not patronizing or ass kissing to them.
The more I see and hear Democrats, the more I am convinced they are out to get us. Period.
read the book Cover Ops and Counterintelligence, Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards. it is a few years old, but says tons about how the left hates intel, but not so much why. i think the why is that, if intel were to look at the left’s network of associations, there would be many people being charged with treason.
that is just my opinion, I am one spider and could be wrong … but, i doubt it.
The Republicans couldn’t get a wet kleenex investigated.
Even when they had the majority the sucked at it.
she still needs to be thrown out of office on her fat ass
She needs to be charged criminally. Obstruction, false official statements. CIA officers need to sue for defamation and slander, even if they get nowhere. This is bullshit. She walks????????????
Spider: Nope, not wrong, they’ve been at it since the 50s.
Flood Pelosi’s office demanding her to do the right thing and step down for the good of the country and not her partisian politics. Tell her to show a little integrity if possible. She is not speaker material
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Cover-up in plain sight.
Let’s get used to this. The Dems can do what ever they want, to who ever they want, when ever they want and there ain’t a thing we could do about it.
I’m going to get me that bumper sticket that says, “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted Conservative!”
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I still say the dumb bitch has alzheimers.She just has that dingbat look in her eyes.From what I have seen she’s not much of a speaker.She seems to be quite vocally challenged.