"Judge, Jury & Executioner" Gingrich tells Fox News Sunday that Lucy's got some 'splainin to do

[Amerigo Vespucci]

FNS: Newt Gingrich Questions Pelosi's Version
By Nicole Belle Sunday May 10, 2009 11:30am

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/fns-newt-gingrich

It may be one of the biggest scandals in US history: the "they said/she said" power play between the CIA and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. As more and more information comes out to show just how sadistic and truly tortuous our "interrogations" of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydeh were, the need to spread the blame intensifies.

So naturally, the best expert on this issue is the disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, only too happy to tighten the noose around the neck of Pelosi a little more.

WALLACE: House Speaker Pelosi continues to deny that she was ever briefed on the enhanced interrogation techniques that were actually used against Al Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah.

But a newly released list of congressional briefings -- and let’s put it up -- says that Pelosi received, quote, “a description of the particular EITs,” or enhanced interrogation techniques, “that had been employed,” this just a month after Zubaydah had been waterboarded 83 times.

How do you explain the discrepancy?

GINGRICH: Well, I think she has a lot of explaining to do. I don’t. She clearly -- she’s now changed her story again and said well, she’d been reassured they were all legal. So initially she didn’t know about it, had not been briefed. Then she had been briefed, but it wasn’t clear. Now she’d been briefed and, in fact, had been told it was all legal so she didn’t worry about it.

I think she has, you know, a lot of explaining to do. I think on national security matters, she has an obligation either to say nothing or to tell the truth. And it’s pretty clear in this case she’s not telling the truth.

Newt Gingrich: Judge, Jury and Executioner. But there's no partisan gain here. Let's be clear: If it in fact does turn out that Nancy Pelosi knew that they had waterboarded Zubaydeh 83 times over the space of 30 days and said or did nothing, let's not excuse it or whitewash it. She has to accept responsibility for her actions.

[CJCRANE]

1. Pelosi wasn't even Speaker in 2002

and the Dems were in the minority.

Whether Pelosi knew or not isn't really the big question.

[DCKit]

2. It needs investigation. A REAL, in-depth investigation and prosecutions, where warranted.

However, anyone who doesn't believe BushCo and their DOJ wouldn't have gone after anyone who stood up to them with both barrels and the full force of the law during that period is either insane or really, really stupid. They'd have accused and tried any vocal detractors for treason in a heartbeat to set an example for the rest.

[gratuitous]

3. And that's what this selective leaking by CIA is supposed to prevent

It's standard blackmail from wrong-doers. I've seen kids as young as 4 years old trying it. Caught red-handed, the immature impulse to blame others is something that some people never outgrow. The CIA is apparently not past that juvenile stage, and as you watch their advocates and apologists, you can draw the same conclusions about them and the irresponsible media who carry their tales so uncritically.