Image: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she 'concurred' with Rep. Jane Harman's 2003 letter protesting the use of waterboarding. Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO From Politico:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a person familiar with the situation said Monday.
The Pelosi camp’s version of events is intended to answer two key questions posed by her critics: When, precisely, did she first learn about waterboarding? And why didn’t she do more to stop it?
Pelosi has disputed a CIA document, released last week, that shows she was briefed in September 2002 on the “particular” interrogation techniques the United States had used on Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. Pelosi has said she was told then only that the Bush administration was considering using certain techniques in the future — and that it had the legal authority to do so.
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My Comment: The sentence that made me roll over in laughter was this one ....
.... didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels ....
Cough cough .... Madame Speaker, you are the "legislative channel".
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