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To: mph who wrote (305121)	5/14/2009 8:20:04 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793955

Pretty good.

To: mph who wrote (305121)	5/14/2009 9:06:56 PM
From: Geoff Altman	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

In the real world things were almost as funny when one of the newsies started to ask a question about healthcare and was booed and laughed at.... Ah, glimmers of a press that's starting to wake up perhaps...<g>

To: mph who wrote (305121)	5/15/2009 12:40:28 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793955

Thrush at Politico: Pelosi: Bush briefers lied to me May 14, 2009 Categories: Pelosi politico.com House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Bush administration intelligence officials "misled" her by saying they weren't using waterboarding on terror detainees during a Sept. 2002 briefing — months after they had actually begun waterboarding Abu Zubaydah. The San Francisco Democrat called on CIA director Leon Panetta to release full details on her briefing — and shook her head in the affirmative when asked if the administration had actually "lied" to her. "The only mention of waterboarding in the briefing was that it was not being employed," she told reporters, reading from a prepared statement — twice for emphasis. The intelligence briefers gave Pelosi, she said, "inaccurate and incomplete information." "Perhaps they should release the briefing — I would be very happy if they released the briefing," Pelosi added. A spokesman for Panetta said the director has agreed to make the notes of Pelosi's briefing "available at CIA for staff review” and referred reporters to a previous Panetta letter saying a recently released chart of Congressional briefings, while accurate, represented the "best recollections" of those present The chart claims Pelosi was told about "particular" interrogation methods used on detainees. "The language in the chart — ‘a description of the particular EITs [enhanced interrogation techniques] that had been employed’— is true to the language in the Agency’s records,” the spokesman said in an e-mail. Former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino, writing in The Arena on POLITICO, said the speaker did herself more harm than good. "A goal of any press conference should be to answer questions — not conjure up more. Unfortunately for the speaker, she seems to have fallen short of that objective," wrote Perino. “Is she suggesting that career government officials, those very CIA briefers, are the ones that ‘lied’ to her? What would have been their motivation for lying to her but others who got the same briefing not being lied to? Why does she suggest she was powerless?" Perino added. "But the ultimate question I'm left with is - does she really believe what she's saying? It's hard to follow the press conference transcript — if one held it to the light it would have looked like Swiss cheese." Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence committee has already submitted a request for the briefing documents Pelosi requested today. Like Perino, he was less than impressed by Pelosi's responses today. "This is Version 5.0 from Nancy on what happened in that Sept. meeting — I'm not sure what today's explanation means," Hoekstra told my colleague Alex Isenstadt. "I believe that information should be released. Ive called for it to be released." On Pelosi's claim she was lied to, he replied, "That's a very, very serious charge. If you're the speaker of the House and you say you were lied to on a national security issue, that's a serious charge."