GOP backs CIA in dispute with Pelosi

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are rushing to defend the CIA after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the spy agency of misleading her and other lawmakers about its use of waterboarding during the Bush administration.

The issue of what did the speaker know about the interrogation method — and when did she know it — has deepened the fault lines between the two political parties. Pelosi was unequivocal about a CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002.

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On Friday, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee contradicted Pelosi's claims and questioned her criticism of the nation's spy operations.

"I think it's a tragedy that we are seeing this massive attack on our intelligence community which has kept us safe," Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show where he questioned why Pelosi was "going after the agency and calling them liars."

Bond said he reviewed the CIA's material and it was clear that Pelosi had been informed about the enhanced interrogation method, although Bond said he was not with Pelosi when the spy agency briefed her.

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[Teaser]

1. The CIA has already proven they are torturers

so being a liar is just chump change compared to that.

[Fresh_Start]

2. Great, can the members of the GOP which were told

about torture, please identify themselves?

[ixion]

3. this is a very stupid and obvious game the MSM plays

and the idiocy of it, is not amusing, IMO.

[Solly Mack]

4. Of course they do.

...all the while ignoring their own knowledge (and rubber-stamping) of Bush's torture program, all the while avoiding any hint of accountability for the Bush administration

And they'll kiss up to the CIA because it suits their purpose...just like they attacked the CIA ("bad intel") when it suited their purpose

GOP voters don't care that their representatives rubber-stamped torture...so saying the GOP also knew doesn't bother them at all. Heck, they're proud of it.

[AlphaCentauri]

5. The GOP of Torture

that's it, the GOP is about torture and terrorism, can they fix the economy?

[madmom]

6. I think they were already proven to be liars after all the intell given for the war.

[Javaman]

7. And here is the gop's opening to devert attention from their failings

Blame someone else!!!

[Downwinder]

8. Every time I receive one of those "must have" briefings,

filling a prescription, medical privacy statements, etc.; I have to sign-off on it. Where is the sign-off sheet? Another example of being above the law?

[TwilightGardener]

9. Gee...surprised...not...

[DinahMoeHum]

10. GOP/CIA: EVERYTHING they touch turns to shit.

2 peas in a pod.

:evilfrown: