More errors in CIA interrogation briefing list

[ProSense]

More errors in CIA interrogation briefing list

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – New questions surfaced Wednesday about the accuracy of a CIA document meant to settle who in Congress knew about severe interrogation methods approved by the Bush administration.

Three new errors appeared to emerge in the CIA's matrix of 40 congressional briefings on so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. Those techniques include waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, which President Barack Obama has called torture.

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Pelosi has been a frequent target of criticism from Republicans who are eager to argue that Democrats knew about waterboarding and did little to stop it.

The CIA chart states that a Senate staffer, Chris Mellon, attended a briefing on July 15, 2004. However, Mellon told The Associated Press that he left the Senate in April 2004 and did not attend the briefing.

On Wednesday, CIA spokesman George Little said the CIA has reviewed its record and agrees that Mellon was erroneously listed as having attended the 2004 briefing.

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What are the chances the CIA lied? Looks like Pelosi has got a solid case:

[leftofthedial]

1. 1. Especially since raygun, the CIA *always* lies.

2. Under repuke "leadership" they aren't competent enough to lie successfully, hence all the inaccurate records.


I'm no fan of Pelosi, but I'm on her side in this case. Investigate torture fully, and her knowledge, role, exposure or whatever will come out.

[zbdent]

2. More errors in the briefing lists ...

Senator Hugh G. Rection ...

Rep. Donald Duqq ...

Rep. Michael "Mike" Hunt ...

[Thrill]

3. Repukes are going to look like fools AGAIN

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[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. bush had the documents edited

like in the yellowcake saga.

[Imagevision]

5. GOP --> put up or shut up! - Pelosi, the same goes for you!

[MasonJar]

6. What an absurd way to run any organization. I hope Panetta straightens them up.

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7. CIA Briefing Document Lists Goss As Congressman -- Even Though He Was CIA Director At The Time

CIA Briefing Document Lists Goss As Congressman -- Even Though He Was CIA Director At The Time

Another day, another indication that the CIA briefings document that Republicans are currently trying to bludgeon Nancy Pelosi with is deeply flawed and unreliable.

The Associated Press yesterday spotted *(see late update below) two clear new errors in the document -- including one real howler we're kicking ourselves for not spotting ourselves:

1)

The CIA chart states that a Senate staffer, Chris Mellon, attended a briefing on July 15, 2004. However, Mellon told The Associated Press that he left the Senate in April 2004 and did not attend the briefing.

On Wednesday, CIA spokesman George Little said the CIA has reviewed its record and agrees that Mellon was erroneously listed as having attended the 2004 briefing.

And even more embarrassingly, 2)

The CIA chart also shows former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss attended a March 8, 2005, briefing as a member of Congress. However, Goss was at that time the director of the CIA. He took that job in November 2004.

These are hardly the first pieces of evidence that the document is unreliable. Four Democratic lawmakers, including Pelosi, are now on record differing with the document's version of what happened. And as Greg Sargent reports today, Goss himself, who attended that 2002 Pelosi briefing is refusing to say that the CIA informed him and Pelosi that waterboarding had already been used -- the key issue in dispute.

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[ProSense]

8. Proof that Factcheck.org is a Repub tool:

The facts behind the speaker's changing story about her knowledge of CIA waterboarding.

Pelosi's changing story? What about the lying CIA and the falsified documents they released?