Democrats pretty excited about errors found in CIA list on waterboarding briefings
posted at 9:14 pm on May 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
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This is almost too stupid to dignify with a post, but there’s an important point lurking here that needs reiterating. Remember: The only dispute as far as Pelosi is concerned is whether she learned waterboarding was going on in September 2002, as a member of the House intelligence brain trust (and as the Washington Post asserted), or five months later in February 2003 after she’d left the committee. There’s no dispute that she knew by the latter date, just as there’s no dispute that she said nothing about the practice upon finding out.
And yet the Democrats — who profess to care about this subject on the merits, and who therefore theoretically shouldn’t fret much about when she knew — are hot to circle the wagons and prove she didn’t find out until February 2003, not September 2002. That’s how principled their opposition is to “torture.”
Three new errors appeared to emerge in the CIA’s matrix of 40 congressional briefings on so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. Those techniques include waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, which President Barack Obama has called torture.
The CIA acknowledged one of the errors but continued to stand by its version of events in the other two cases…
The CIA chart states that a Senate staffer, Chris Mellon, attended a briefing on July 15, 2004. However, Mellon told The Associated Press that he left the Senate in April 2004 and did not attend the briefing.
On Wednesday, CIA spokesman George Little said the CIA has reviewed its record and agrees that Mellon was erroneously listed as having attended the 2004 briefing…
On Tuesday, House Appropriations Chairman Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., said that one of his committee staff members was erroneously listed as attending a briefing in September 2006. The CIA stands by its record on that count.
How much more pathetic and embarrassing can this story get? This much.
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Nanny Pelosi is charging that the CIA lied to the Congress of the United States.
She needs to prove her allegations or step down as Speaker.
jgapinoy on May 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM
She needs to step down period.
Then she needs to sue the plastic surgeons who injected every facial muscle with botox.
They obviously clipped something that let the botox leak into his frontal lobes.
blatantblue on May 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM
TRUTH COMMISSION FTW!!!!!!
yesssssss!
I can’t wait.
;)
MY president, like Peggy, wants to keep on walking……but WE don’t do we Allah baby?
Let’s have that juicy delicious truth.
strangelet on May 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM
her
blatantblue on May 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Your obsession with AP is actually a little endearing!
blatantblue on May 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
From AP’s last link:
When Arlen went over to the dark side, did you think really he’d stay a moderate?
jgapinoy on May 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Comming from a traitor that is rich. Spector is just trying to earn his obama points to be redeemed later.
William Amos on May 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Nancy Pelosi lied the CIA died.
William Amos on May 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM
We MUST have a full investigation, with sworn testimony. We also want to see the documents Cheney wants released on the information derived from waterboarding.
Star20 on May 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
He’s just back home where he belongs. He left home thirty years ago.
blatantblue on May 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
When you wrote “his”, you must have been thinking how the same thing happened to Jolted Joe Biden.
jgapinoy on May 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
MY president wants to keep on bowing.
Loxodonta on May 20, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Democrat politicians brazenly lie ten times before they brush their teeth in the afternoon.
The absolutely worthless, corrupt and incompetent Democrat Party has zero credibility, with anyone who has a single shred of sense.
NoDonkey on May 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM
She should stay right where she is. She’s a perfect albatross for the Democrats. I want her to stay out in front, babbling, obfuscating, and generally making a fool of herself.
DerKrieger on May 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Liberals excel at incompetence and their handling of Torture-Gate/Nancy-Gate/LollaPelosi has the hallmarks of a Case Study. This is the crowd that wants to lecture Conservatives on torture and America’s values, while heartily endorsing policies that are tantamount to infanticide. They want to save the planet, even if means destroying the U.S. auto industry. They want to prevent Iran from going nuclear by doing the very things that ensure it happens. They want to make us energy independent by ruining the economy with energy taxes.
They are clueless and pathetic. But I am enjoying this Pelosi thing.
EMD on May 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
His brows just defy gravity.
DARPA needs to do some testing on those.
blatantblue on May 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Again, who would want to piss off the CIA?
txag92 on May 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
The 2010 campaign commercials are just writing themselves.
Techie on May 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
heh…. yea losing Specter is turning out to be a real loss now ain’t it?
Hog Wild on May 20, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Specter is a lying piece of pelosi.
JiangxiDad on May 20, 2009 at 9:28 PM
I thought the Dems were smarter than this. Anyhow, I hope they never stop talking about it. It can only hurt them.
TheBigOldDog on May 20, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Gooney Pelosi
Loxodonta on May 20, 2009 at 9:30 PM
This is almost as embarrassing for the left as their excitement over every crazy, nutcase wacko utterance of Wilkerson. They are pathetic.
Topsecretk9 on May 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM
She’s the one who cranked it up a notch when she said the CIA lied/mislead her. And I believe she followed up with “all the time”. These things can go into oblivion when they start analyzing the details of who was in what meeting and who said what. Her pathetic press conference is what took it to the point of no return.
sherry on May 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Madame Speaker, you have stated on the record that “the CIA lies to Congress all the time”. Where are the grand investigations and trials to support these allegations?
Techie on May 20, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Here come da meme…
Here come da meme…
“CIA can’t even get its own records straight! Completely discredited! These are the people who brought you NO WMD! We’re supposed to believe them over Pelosi?”
Coming soon to a talking head show near you. Watch for it: the DailyKos, Dem Underground etc trolls will be appearing with their assignment within 48 hours.
J.E. Dyer on May 20, 2009 at 9:35 PM
I don’t have a president. Nor do I have a commander in chief as this Afghanistan buildup he crowed about during his campaign continues to be the worst executed and least supported operation I’ve ever been involved with in 33 years of service.
Please, to either Bush. Please come back and save us from this abject moron and his worthless administration.
If any of you want to send me a care package, I could really use some M4 magazines, at least one more M9 magazine and my freaking individual basic load.
hawkdriver on May 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Not saying the CIA is even slightly corrupt or anything, I think they have to be one of the most patriotic organizations out there, which is why the left in congress are so angry with them historically. Anyway, if I were that douchebag pelosi, I’d watch myself now. She just made a prime time enemy out of the absolute wrong people you’d want to have as enemies.
Ever heard of license to kill? Well, in real terms, the CIA doesn’t even need one….
Spiritk9 on May 20, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Sorry to see you going through this.
blatantblue on May 20, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Haha…that bird’s got Pelosi’s 100 yard stare in a 50 yard room down pat! They both kind of have the same neck as well.
TampaBayBull on May 20, 2009 at 9:41 PM
hawkdriver on May 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Brother, if I had ‘em, they would be on their way to you. Keep your cotton-picking head down and come home safe. You’re in our prayers.
kingsjester on May 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM
How come nobody’s talking about a truth commission anymore?
I would actually like to know what was going on at the George Tenant CIA around that time anyways.
WisCon on May 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Don’t worry, David Axelrod is cooking up a speech for Obama where he reprises George C. Scott’s opening scene in “Patton”.
One of the details to be worked out, is exactly which flag Obama will be standing before.
NoDonkey on May 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM
The Donkeys are going to keep this crap up until the spooks from langley whip out recordings of the Sept 02 meeting taken from lapel pin and tie tac cameras.
You think I’m kidding?
DrW on May 20, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Stay safe brother. This bastard is going to maroon our folks over there. He is out of his depth. A CinC has to earn his respect. This one has not and won’t.
Remind our people over there whats at stake over here with this criminal in power.
elduende on May 20, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Hoyer, Reid, Specter, Obey… Does anyone else see the left teaming up to accuse the CIA of lying?
Shouldn’t America look closely at the party in charge as they are now turning their attack dogs on one of the very agencies that protects us?
madmonkphotog on May 20, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Far be it for me to enjoy anyone else’s misfortune……..
……. but I am enjoying far too much the reality that Arlen Specter will spend the rest of his political career entering rooms where people stop talking, leaving rooms where people start talking, and basically walking the halls of power with little to no power to yield anymore.
My current wish, is for Nancy Pelosi to achieve this status…..
Seven Percent Solution on May 20, 2009 at 9:59 PM
give it a rest, know one is stepping down and the U. S. is in big trouble, thanks to politicans on both sides. It is time to do something and the time is now.
foxone on May 20, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Good gravy, your dialogue sounds like something out of a Russ Meyer movie.
Del Dolemonte on May 20, 2009 at 10:04 PM
The best weapon you have right now, hawk, is letting us know what the hell is going on…………
……… God Speed!
Seven Percent Solution on May 20, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I’m assuming this Russ Meyer you write of is a flaming, prancing idiot, do I have that right?
NoDonkey on May 20, 2009 at 10:15 PM
How is telling us they don’t attend CIA briefings on national security matters supposed to convince the public they are on the right side of the issue? It would be better to say, yes they did attend, but their hearing aid was broken at the time, or something.
Resolute on May 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I’d have a higher opinion of Pelosi if she didn’t attend hearings, never set foot in Congress and if she remained out of the country.
I’d vote to triple her salary. This woman has absolutely no business with anything that might even slightly put her in a position of influencing the lives of others.
NoDonkey on May 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Since they’re liberals that automatically makes them on the right side of the issue. It’s the rest of us that won’t line up with there feelings based philosophy that are on the wrong side of the issue. Have no fear they’ll rejoin the wrong side as soon as we are hit again (God Forbid)
chemman on May 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM
As part of the dying breed known as conservatives in Pennsyvania, I had the agonizing displeasure of watching Arlen’s career unfold over the last 40 years.
He was never a moderate, but there were times when he did an impressive job pretending to be one.
fogw on May 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Botox! Botox! Everywhere
and the wrinkles all did shrink.
Botox! Botox! Everywhere
Oh my God! My Eyes!
Can’t blink!
Oldnuke on May 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Good ole Arlen Specter to the rescue? Well Madam Speaker you are in good hands. HA! HA!
RMR on May 20, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Keep your head down, watch your buddy’s back and come home safe to us, hawk. We are all praying for you.
ChicagoBlues on May 20, 2009 at 11:33 PM
My daughter and son-in-law served two and three deployments to Afghanistan respectively. Awful place I hear. Their opinion of our new President, and respect for the old one is similar to your.
What’s your FPO/AP and I will send one care of hawkdriver. Will it get to you?
DId you read about selling spent shells to China?
What a country we live in.
eaglesdontflock on May 20, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Well if Specter thinks Pelosi isn’t corrupt harumph harumph than we all must be mistaken harumph harumph…can’t help it Paul Begala was saying he believe Nancy Pelosi this morning on Imus in the Morning and he always reminds me of that Mel Brooks Movie “Blazing Saddles”
Dr Evil on May 20, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Gentlemen, please…rest your sphincters.
TheMightyMonarch on May 21, 2009 at 12:03 AM
All this and yet BaWa and Whoopi devote precious time in their program to accusing Glenn Beck of lying about who came to whom during that Amtrak train ride!
miron on May 21, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Well Specter has to get on his knees to receive the Messiah’s political support so he might have a ghost of a chance in PA. It’s going to be so disappointing to him to have acted like such a tool and get nothing for it when Barry O decides to screw him like he screws everyone else…
Pelosi is a lying plastic buffoon, hopefully she’s toast. If the dems are worried about losing Reid in the Senate, they certainly need someone who might have some semblance of competence in the House, so bye bye Nancy.
John_Locke on May 21, 2009 at 2:15 AM
OMG! The CIA might have lied. I’m shocked. How bout Pete Hoekstra (R) saying that the CIA lied in 2006? More and more reports are trickling out about the CIA mis-informing. So don’t get on your high horse too fast goopers. Senator Bob Graham has records of CIA “inconsistencies”. Hey, you want to go down the lying road, lets do it. Lets open up this can of worms and see what the war criminals Bush and Cheney were doing behind Congress’s back. Bring it on bee-atches! Show me what you got boyzees! If the goopers are looking for a fight, bring it, and bring your lunch, your gonna be there for a while.
athensboy on May 21, 2009 at 7:15 AM
This is deeply disturbing. I can find a lot of stories about ammunition shortages affecting police training in the U.S., but those stories blame the shortage on ammo going to Iraq and Afghanistan (and people who are afraid of challenges to 2nd Amendment). Can’t find anything on ammo shortages in the field of battle.
Does it help for us to contact members of Armed Services Committee? Saxby Chamblis of GA is my Senator and I’d be happy to call his office.
In addition to having the child king as C.O.C., it’s pretty scary that Carl Levin is the head of the Committee.
Buy Danish on May 21, 2009 at 7:43 AM
Tell the truth: You’re participating in some sort of radio contest, right?
DrSteve on May 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM
I’m guessing that Athensboy is an embittered boy child at UGA whose favorite history books are written by people like Howard Zinn.
Buy Danish on May 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Anyone catch O’Reily’s show last night about her body language during her presser? Hilarious.
I find it interesting too that the current POTUS hasn’t stood by his speaker, in fact, to my knowledge he’s not said a word in her defense. And these people who want to see Bush/Cheney go down in flames? Just what the hell do they think their president is doing in Afghanistan right now? Can you spell Drone? Hellfire? I wonder how many civilians have been killed since he’s been in office. Hypocrites.
scalleywag on May 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM
She’s a liar and a traitor.
I still don’t forgive her for going to Syria.
bluelightbrigade on May 21, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Don’t forget self-serving opportunist and hypocrite. But I agree with someone else, let her sit right where she is and stutter and stammer until the whole country figures out what a useless idiot she is.
scalleywag on May 21, 2009 at 8:51 AM
And why should that be a problem for the 75% of Americans who voted for a charlatan or refused to vote at all on Nov 4th? You can’t blame the democrats for knowing how stupid the American Idol generation Americans are and playing down to their level.
csdeven on May 21, 2009 at 9:12 AM
This has been ALL OVER the MSM…all over.
jukin on May 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM
I love that statement by Arlen. I wonder if the Dems are telling, “Hey . . . Don’t be on our side, okay?”
Pavel on May 21, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Meaning that if it can be proven that the CIA told the truth even once, Pelosi is a liar.
Way to go out on a limb, San Fran Nan.
Steve Z on May 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM
I also heard a report on the radio this morning that the Pakistani Army had recaptured a Taliban stronghold in the Swat valley with the assistance of American Special Forces.
Which begs the question: who ordered Special Forces into Pockyston, Bush or Obama?
Not that it’s a bad idea–even losing a few Special Ops guys would be better than letting the Taliban get its mitts on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. But the MSM will never let out the dirty little secret to the sheeple on the left: Barack Hussein Obama is a WARMONGER !
Steve Z on May 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
They must love continuing this train wreck!
Take a gander at Hillary sometime. I’m certain she’s had air pressure put in her face as well. It sure did push out all those crevices.
capejasmine on May 21, 2009 at 12:50 PM
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