Speaker of the House Nacy Pelosi meets with President-elect Barack Obama. (Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post)From ABC News:
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah in September 2002, according to a report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence’s office and obtained by ABC News.
The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics. Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques.
The report details a Sept. 4, 2002 meeting between intelligence officials and Pelosi, then-House intelligence committee chairman Porter Goss, and two aides. At the time, Pelosi was the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.
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My Comment: We are now in the classic situation of .... she said .... he said. What is troubling about this case is that there were multiple witnesses who were there, and they are all saying the same thing, while Rep. Pelosi is alone and is her sole witness is herself.
What we do know is that she was there. She should have asked the questions that a senior person on the oversight committee should ask. Her only defense then is that she did not .... which in itself is odd and sloppy on her part.