Nancy Pelosi: Lips Moving, Still Lying

San Fran Nan Pelosi is in a wee bit of a crack. Seems she and other Congressional leaders were briefed over 30 TIMES about CIA terrorist-interrogation techniques, but she just doesn’t recall said briefings. She was, however, in the room with other members of Congress during the many discussions on the subject beginning in 2002.

The first such briefing dealt with the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, the Al Qaeda operations chief who ran the training camps in Afghanistan where the Sept. 11 hijackers were trained. Sources told Fox that Pelosi attended the meeting with then-Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla. (who later became CIA director), and she did not raise any objections. Now doublespeak is flying double-time over who knew what when. A few days ago, Obama said anyone who gave the OK on the interrogations could be open to prosecution. Dems instantly piled on, and threatened to Hague virtually everyone involved.

Today, however, senior members in both parties say they DID know, probably because they’d been briefed so many times. Except Pelosi. She is sticking to her on-tape statement that: “We were not, I repeat not told that waterboarding and any other enhanced inter techniques were being used, and if they were being used they would brief congress.” Oops.

Perhaps this is what’s behind Obama’s second or third switchup regarding prosecutions of those involved. Press secretary Robert Gibbs said today that even an independent investigation would likely just result in a political back and forth, that “we need to look forward.” As Congress can’t have such an investigation without Barry signing on, this issue looks like it could be a fizz. Seems Obama may stay away from this tar-baby, and Congress is probably glad for the cover. Should be fun to watch Pelosi twist in the wind for awhile, though!

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