Nancy Pelosi: Speaker of Lies
In a Congress full of blowhards, crooks, liars, and clowns…Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the biggest joke of them all. Other than John Murtha, I don’t know that there is a person in all of America that I find more despicable than San Fran Nan.
So it’s such a joyful schadenfreude to watch Ms. Botox squirm beneath the weight of her own lies concerning “what she knew and when she knew it” regarding the enhanced interrogation techniques (that saved thousands of American lives, thank you very much) used by the CIA.
Jimmie at the Sundries Shack has a run down of Pelosi’s bad week:
The Pelosi saga rolls on with yet another story about What Nancy Knew and When She Knew It. For those of you keeping track, this is now the fifth time she’s changed her story. So far, these are the stories she’s used:
1) I knew nothing about waterboarding.
2) I knew about waterboarding, but not that they were going to do it.
3) Okay, my top national security aide was fully briefed but I was just told. Jane Harman wrote a concerned memo with which I fully agreed but didn’t say anything because I respect the government “channels” too much.
4) The CIA told me sweet, sweet lies. They lied to Congress, too.
While Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi is 7 years older than the CIA, she’ll be dead and forgotten long before the demise of the CIA. Her battle with the CIA is one she can’t win — because every dirty little (and big) thing that Pelosi has ever pulled, said, or conspired to do? The CIA knows about it and probably has pictures, memos, or video.
I think Pelosi suddenly remembered this once she realized that the CIA is not backing down from her lies and smears. In her latest spin on the truth, Pelosi backtracked with this:
We all share great respect for the dedicated men and women of the intelligence community who are deeply committed to the safety and security of the American people. My criticism of the manner in which the Bush Administration did not appropriately inform Congress is separate from my respect for those in the intelligence community who work to keep our country safe.
Contrast this with what Madame Speaker said just a few hours earlier:
Q: Madame Speaker, just to be clear, you are accusing the CIA of lying to you in September 2002?
A: Yes, of misleading the Congress of the United States. Misleading the Congress of the United States.
If this were a Republican, the Left would demand heads roll and resignations tendered. As a Republican, I expect the same thing of Pelosi.
Of course it might be just a lot more fun to watch the CIA reveal, destroy, and bury Ms. Pelosi instead.
Scary Thought
William Jacobson at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion reminds us of this scary thought: Two heart beats away from the Presidency.
Two heartbeats away from the Presidency sits someone who has alleged that the Central Intelligence Agency repeatedly misled Congress as to the interrogation of terrorist detainees, thereby accusing the CIA of a massive and possibly criminal scheme.
Two heartbeats away from the Presidency sits someone whose accusations have been denied by the Director of the CIA appointed by Obama.
Two heartbeats away from the Presidency sits someone who has control over the legislative appropriations process which can have a critical impact on the safety and security of the nation, including the intelligence agency budgets.
Two heart beats away is the best reason to hope and pray for the continued good health and well being of Obama and Biden.
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OTHERS:
Morgan Freeberg at RightWingNews adds:
Pelosi’s lack of elegance is something of a surprise, and it would seem to be a nearly-fatal flaw. She possesses all of the slippery, filthy characteristics of a greasy old engine part dragged into a finely decorated dining room, unceremoniously dropped onto a priceless linen tablecloth. But she retains none of the lubricating qualities of such an artifact. There is a pretense of sincerity in her words, but it is all for nothing because there is nothing inviting about the prospect of believing in it, or of even pretending to believe in it.
She’s simply a bad liar.
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STOP! The Attacks On Speaker Pelosi
Last time they tried to attack Speaker Pelosi ( second in line to the President of the United States) it was about her alleged abuse of military transportation. This attack as expected turned out to be bogus. It turned out that the previous Speaker (Hastert – a Republican) made far more use of military transportation. It turned out that Speaker Pelosi was possibly overly prudent and too self-restrained in her use of military transportation.
Now Republicans are trying to attack her about allegedly having been told by the Bush administration about things she was not told about, like water boarding. Republicans are attacking her because she is being so effective at getting the peoples work done in congress, like healthcare. And Republicans want to stop her. Don’t put up with that. Every time they attack Speaker Pelosi they are attacking you and the rest of the American people. If they go after her, go after them even harder.
They are trying to con Speaker Pelosi and the American people. And here is how it works. Approximately 6 years ago CIA had a briefing with Pelosi and congress, but DID NOT tell congress and Pelosi that the Bush administration was using torture ( water boarding ) on detainees. Then the Bush administration sent in Porter Goss to head the CIA and to destroy, and doctor records in part to make it look like Pelosi, and the Democrats in congress were onboard with the illegal torture of detainees by the Bush administration.
See, apparently at these intelligence briefings members of congress are not allowed to take notes. And if they do, they are not allowed to keep them. Apparently the CIA makes notes, but the members of congress are not allowed to see those notes either. And they can’t tell anybody about what was said at the briefings. But the CIA can come back six years later and claim they told members of congress something six years ago that they did not tell them at that time. And they can use falsified notes to substantiate their claim. Planting disinformation was the type of thing the CIA became very good at during the time Porter Goss was a young CIA agent. Just gotta love it.
If you will remember, their was a mass exodus of senior CIA officials after Porter Goss took over. And the complaint at the time was that longtime, highly experienced agents were being replaced by other people based mostly on their political loyalties to the Bush administration and their extreme right-wing ideologies. Which is just exactly what you need if you want people who will be willing to break the law under orders. Sound familiar? I don’t think you can trust any CIA records after Goss took over.
I have nothing but the utmost respect, and admiration for the dedicated and patriotic members of OUR! Central Intelligence Agency. When the Bush administration betrayed one of OUR! agents (Mrs. Wilson) it made me boiling MAD! I think our new Director Pennetta has got some internal investigation and agency house cleaning to do. If you backtrack on the individuals that have been making the false attacks on Speaker Pelosi, and trace who they have had contact and conversations with, you should be able to connect the dots and catch your conspirators.
The key that the CIA records are falsified is Sen. Bob Graham and his journal, and common sense.
By the way, I think Mr. Pennetta is an excellent choice to head the CIA and fix it.
They are trying to kill healthcare reform. And continue our healthcare crisis. Don’t put up with that.
PASS THE WORD.
To The Congress Of The United States:
If it is true that you are not allowed to have or make any permanent records of your intelligence briefings for later clarifications, and protection, that is ridiculous. That leaves all of you vulnerable to just this type of scam that is being perpetrated on Speaker Pelosi. So here is what you can do about it to protect your-selves in the future.
Members should be able to make notes and other recordings of these briefings. Then these briefings and recordings can be reduced to a computer file that can then be encrypted and digitally signed with a detached digital signature using key encryption. Then each of you can encrypt, and sign each others copy of the record that can only be unlocked with the other parties key. And both parties copies can be verified with each others copy of the files detached digital signature.
Very easy. Very secure. No more exposure to falsified records down the road.
You see, it almost doesn’t really matter what CIA allegedly did or didn’t tell Speaker Pelosi, and congress. Because the briefing format is so deficient of any checks, balances, or verification that all we know is that all external briefing accounts support Speaker Pelosi’s version of events. Pelosi and congress should have been given every benefit of the doubt. And that should have been it.
There are many other booby traps out there set for you congress. Be careful.
God Bless You
jacksmith — WORKING CLASS
p.s. I still think the timing of Sen. Bob Graham’s ruptured cerebral aneurism was suspicious. More so now, than before.
Jack,
Either you are a paid hack by the jackasses, or just one of the biggest obfuscating jackasses I have ever encountered.
I won’t even dignify your screeching with a proper fisking, as the entire rant is so filled with liberal lies, it is unworthy of even the quick glance I gave it.
Piglosi is in a box, and her latest lie, that it was Bush, is the funniest yet.
The CIA fired a warning shot after her first lie, by releasing the memo showing when and where she was briefed, and what was in the briefing. She continued to lie, to try and get her fingerprints off of the fact that she knew all along. Does she actually think the CIA will not respond with more factual info, especially when Panetta has no loyalty to her, and Hoyer wants her job, and is a total B-HO knob-slobber?
Adios, Piglosi. Time to go back to your millions, and tend to your vinyards that don’t employ even one union employee.
So what? If the public embrassment and adjudication of the Bush torture regime takes down a few complicit Democrats with it, so be it.
That’s just the point you keep mistaking, Mohamed, there was no torture.
Now, with B-HO as president, he has expanded torture to the highest level in history.
“Waterboarding” isn’t torture, but a burning saline bath to an innocent unborn infant most certainly is.
If it’s not torture, then what the hell is all the fuss over Pelosi about?
You’re incoherence is exceeded only by your capacity for self-delusion.
Mohamed, it is about her lying, repeatedly, to cover her ass for her far left kook supporters.
Your inability to analyze simple info is exceeded only by your lack of honesty.
She was covering a lot of Republicans’ asses too. If she’d been doing her job then this could’ve been aired out while the crooks were still in charge of the program Y’know, back when Dick and Junior were blaming everything on the CIA, now suddenly the GOP’s best friend. What a difference a year makes.
No, mohamed, only in your leftist kook world did the previous administration do anything illegal. Everyone was on board, even some donks asked the CIA if more couldn’t be done, until ‘Rage Boy’ Howard Dean started his kook rantings in 2003, and the other donks saw what a political opportunity existed, if they did a 180. No one would notice or care, with dinguses like you and the other kooks, along with the sold-out liberal lame stream media running interference.
Mohamed, you really are a kick ball.
Let’s listen to Piglosi squirm and weasel, as only a lying leftist can.
No, she was lying to cover her own ass with her moonbat constituency, pattyshite.