House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah in September 2002, according to a report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence’s office and obtained by ABC News.
The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics. Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques.
The report details a Sept. 4, 2002 meeting between intelligence officials and Pelosi, then-House intelligence committee chairman Porter Goss, and two aides. At the time, Pelosi was the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.
The meeting is described as a “Briefing on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of particular EITs that had been employed.”
EITs stand for “enhanced interrogation techniques,” a classification of special interrogation tactics that includes waterboarding.
Only an idiot would think the Democrat leadership wasn’t informed of this back when it first happened. Democrats surely knew what was going on, but only after they realized they had a political issue they could exploit did they start to object. They played dumb (I know, not a stretch for them) about it for several years, claiming they didn’t know or didn’t approve, just like they did with the Iraqi war. Remember, virtually ALL of them at some point in time wanted to go into Iraq like Bush finally did, but only after it was done did they suddenly have a problem with it. It wasn’t because they thought it was the wrong thing to do, but because their base (the far-left kooks at Daily Kos and the like) were against it. That’s pandering you can believe in.
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