via The Take: Pelosi’s Comments Raise Interrogation Debate to New Level – washingtonpost.com.
She seems to be having a problem coming to terms with conflicting statements she made about when she knew about torture as a Bush era policy:
Pelosi’s performance in the Capitol was either a calculated escalation of a long-running feud with the Bush administration or a reckless act by a politician whose word had been called into question. Perhaps it was both.
For the first time, Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged that in 2003 she was informed by an aide that the CIA had told others in Congress that officials had used waterboarding during interrogations. But she insisted, contrary to CIA accounts, that she was not told about waterboarding during a September 2002 briefing by agency officials. Asked whether she was accusing the CIA of lying, she replied, “Yes, misleading the Congress of the United States.”
Her contention is that she didn’t find out until Feb. 2003 and did not protest because she was focused on winning control of Congress back from Republicans. That just doesn’t ring true to me. I suspect she knew more than she’s said so far.
