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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (825610)	12/25/2014 11:11:03 AM
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Pelosi Acknowledges She Was Told of Waterboarding in 2003 ... Your browser indicates if you've visited this link Under fire from Republicans for what she knew about harsh questioning of terror detainees, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday acknowledged that she had learned in 2003 that the C.I.A. had subjected suspects to waterboarding, but she asserted that the agency had misled Congress ... thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/pelosi-cia-misled-congress-ove... She knew, she approved, she could have stopped it. Thank you for proving you don't really care about waterboarding.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (825610)	12/25/2014 12:29:12 PM
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>> Nobody from Congress, including the R's, authorized, approved, or engaged in torture. The ONLY reason they're in the loop at all is because they have an "oversight" role. "A briefing was given on September 4, 2002, to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Porter Goss, and the ranking member, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. In addition there were a couple of their senior staffers present. We went through each of the specific techniques used in the interrogation of AZ that had been used for a couple of weeks in August. By the time we were briefing the Hill, Abu Zubaydah was compliant and providing good intelligence. We held nothing back and made clear that only authorized techniques, including waterboarding, had been used on Abu Zubaydah." . . . "Six days after the session with Goss and Pelosi, a cable went out from headquarters to the black site informing them that the briefing for the House leadership had taken place (a similar briefing for Senate Intelligence Committee officials was conducted on September 27). The cable to the field made clear that Goss and Pelosi had been briefed on the state of AZ’s interrogation, specifically including the use of the waterboard and other enhanced interrogation techniques." . . . "Porter Goss, always the gentleman, wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Washington Post in which he described the comments coming from the Hill as a “disturbing epidemic of amnesia.” He reported that it was not a single briefing but “an ongoing subject with lots of back and forth between those members and the briefers.” He said he was “slack-jawed” to hear that some members claimed not to know what was going on." Rodriguez Jr., Jose A.; Harlow, Bill (2012-04-30). Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives (p. 254).