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PELOSI TAKES THE WITNESS STAND!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Qzz7K_E1w


Why isn't this dumb broad on the Sunday talking head shows?....If she skates, then this administration has lost every ounce of it's credibility and integrity...the silence out of The White House is deafening...

whoever said it was nice to see adults running things must come from a seriously dysfunctional and deranged household....

Hell I don't remember what my wife told me last week

C.I.A. Rebuffs Cheney’s Request to Declassify Torture Memos
By Scott Shane

Now that former Vice President Dick Cheney is just another guy trying to get information out of his government, he’s running into the same red tape and frustration his fellow citizens often experience.

The Central Intelligence Agency has rebuffed Mr. Cheney’s request for two memorandums that he says would demonstrate the effectiveness of harsh interrogation methods in obtaining information from captured Al Qaeda operatives.

On March 31, Mr. Cheney asked the National Archives and Records Administration to review the two classified documents for declassification and release, and on April 8, an archives official told him the review was underway. The former vice president said the documents, totaling 21 pages and prepared in 2004 and 2005, gave details of how waterboarding and other coercive techniques were necessary and produced invaluable intelligence.

But in a letter released on Thursday, a C.I.A. official told the archives that it would not carry out the requested review, because the documents in question are already being sought in two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.

A C.I.A. spokesman, Paul Gimigliano, on Thursday explained that under the executive order governing classified information, documents that are the subject of pending litigation cannot be reviewed for release.

“For that reason – and that reason only – C.I.A. did not accept Mr. Cheney’s request for a mandatory declassification review,” Mr. Gimigliano said. “The agency simply followed the executive order.”

Seeking to dispel any suggestion that the Obama administration was turning down the request for political reasons, he added: “This request was handled in accordance with normal practice by C.I.A. professionals with long experience in information management and release.”

Mr. Cheney was known during his eight years as vice president as the most vehement defender of government secrecy, once going to the Supreme Court to protect the confidentiality of his energy task force. So his quest to declassify and release secret information about interrogation practices has raised some eyebrows.

What is especially notable is that Mr. Cheney sought the secret memos more than two weeks before President Obama’s release on April 16 of four previously secret Justice Department memorandums justifying harsh interrogation. Some Republicans sharply criticized the president’s release of those memorandums – not knowing, presumably, that Mr. Cheney was already seeking to declassify detailed documents on the interrogation methods...

jack wrote:

Yes, gee wiz jack, gosh by golly, I really believe that...really

Because the CIA said, "go f*** yourself Dick."
No actually, as an avid reader of the NYT jack, did you forget about this story about why the memos are not public yet?

No actually, as an avid reader of the NYT jack, did you forget about this story about why the memos are not public yet?

Yeah, and OJ didnt kill those two people

"I think that it's pretty clear that Mr. Panetta and the CIA believe that they were truthful in their briefings to Ms. Pelosi. There's been no reason to lie," Boehner said Monday.

WASHINGTON -- The Central Intelligence Agency destroyed 92 videotapes from the agency's detainee interrogation program, a far larger number than previously believed, the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday.

Lawmakers were initially told only of the existence of a single tape showing Mr. Zubaydah, said California Rep. Jane Harman, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee in 2003, when she warned the CIA not to destroy that tape. A committee spokeswoman said it was told in the past year that there were 92 tapes, after Rep. Harman departed the committee.

"My jaw fell through the floor," Rep. Harman said. "My impression was that this was a videotape. I never imagined it would be 92 videotapes." The CIA misled her, she said, and "it may also be a violation of law."

good luck with that....

I say present the goddamn evidence because all we'll get from the this dumb broad is "I apologize if anyone misunderstood what I said concerning the CIA and torture"...

and that my friends will be good enough for the dumbocrats...

I say present the goddamn evidence because all we'll get from the this dumb broad is "I apologize if anyone misunderstood what I said concerning the CIA and torture"...
and that my friends will be good enough for the dumbocrats...

Pelosi backs anti-terror truth commission
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
(04-23) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday endorsed the establishment of a formal truth commission to investigate Bush administration anti-terrorism policies, including an examination of former top Justice Department lawyers who crafted the legal justifications for what critics say was torture.
Such a probe could target UC Berkeley law Professor John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush Justice Department who was instrumental in crafting the interrogation memoranda, and his former boss, Jay Bybee, now a judge on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco...