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To: Road Walker who wrote (481283)	5/16/2009 11:21:04 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574018

Nancy Pelosi must be the leader of the Democratic Party. How else to account for such loyalty. Panetta says she was told. Says her story about the CIA lying is a lie. The NYT knows she lied and printed a story about it. Sure it was buried on page 18, but it was printed. But go on pretending you don't know. But be careful. Continued defiance of Dear Leaders CIA chief may result in your being summoned to your local ACORN office for re-education. If that happens, take a long both of Dear Leaders autobiographies. That will earn you credit. ----------------- Republicans are, I guess, much smarter than I am. What kind of prosecutor would toss up a softball like that? You must get laughed at a lot in court.

To: Road Walker who wrote (481283)	5/16/2009 12:31:23 PM
From: bentway	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574018

CIA Admits That Info About Torture Briefings For Dems May Not Be Accurate theplumline.whorunsgov.com As I noted below, newly released documents appear to show that according to the CIA, officials briefed Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats back in 2002 about the use of torture techniques on terror suspects. But a letter that accompanied these documents, written by the head of the CIA, appears to clearly concede that the information in the docs about who was briefed and when may not be accurate or reliable. Republicans are pointing to the documents — which were produced by the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence, and sent to select members of Congress — to charge that Pelosi and other Dems have been lying about what they knew about waterboarding and when. But the docs were accompanied by a letter from CIA chief Leon Panetta that appears to suggest the CIA can’t promise that the info is right. The letter was sent along with the documents to GOP Rep Pete Hoekstra, a leading critic of Dems on torture, and Dem Rep Silvestre Reyes, the chairman of the intelligence committee. I’ve obtained the letter, and a PDF is right here. This is the key part: Emphasis mine. “MFR” apparently refers to “memorandum for the record.” As you can see, this letter says that the info about briefings is taken from notes based on the “best recollections” of those who were there, adding: In the end, you and the Committee will have to determine whether this information is an accurate summary of what actually happened. That would appear to be a concession that the CIA isn’t willing to vouch for the accuracy of the info about the briefings in the docs, and that only further inquiry will produce a reliable recounting of what happened. To be clear, it’s perfectly possible that the info about what Dems were told is right. But not even the CIA is willing to promise this right now. So it’s unclear how much stock to place in the documents at this point.