Advice to Wingnuts: Don’t Believe Pelosi on CIA Lying? Buy a Calendar
By: Jane Hamsher Friday May 15, 2009 8:06 am
I'm a bit worried about the wingnuts. I just don't think they are sufficiently knowledgeable of history or sophisticated enough about the ways of the world to hold public office.
But let's review:
1. Abu Zubaydah waterboarded for a month in August, 2002.
2. Nancy Pelosi, Porter Goss and Bob Graham briefed by the CIA in September 2002:
**** Pelosi says the only time waterboarding was mentioned was when the CIA said it was not being used, and that she was not informed that Abu Zubaydah had been waterboarded.
*** * Goss "refutes" Pelosi by saying that he was "slack jawed" to read Pelosi's claim that "waterboarding" was never mentioned (she didn't), or that the CIA didn't imply that the technique would "actually be employed." He specifically never says that they were told Zubaydah had already been waterboarded.
*** * Bob Graham's notes indicate the CIA just made up two briefings that never occured. He also says that when he was briefed, there were staff members present, and procedure dictates that they would not have been anyone there but "authorized personnel" if "sensitive programs" such as waterboarding were being discused.
more at:
http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/15/advice-to-wingnuts-dont-believe-pelosi-on-cia-lying-buy-a-calendar/So, Pelosi's not the only one who refutes the CIA's claims -- both Porter Goss and Bob Graham back her up.