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The Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi continues to find herself in hot water over her decrial of the treatment of detained enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay Cuba(Gitmo).  It is now evident that Speaker Pelosi knew full well what treatment conditions were at Gitmo.

Nancy Pelosi tried to cash in politically by speaking out about the use of water boarding and other so called forms

of torture on terrorist locked up in Gitmo while trying to crank up some anti-republican sentiment at the same time. When asked why she allowed it to continue, being on the House Intelligence Committee which deals with these issues, she had the power to put down the CIA in its attempts to glean new information from terrorists held captive in Gitmo, she responded by saying that she was lied to by the CIA about  Waterboarding. Claiming she never knew it was being used.

This is a lie according to CIA:

An unclassified chart released last month by the CIA describes a total of 40 briefings for lawmakers over a period of several years on enhanced interrogation techniques. Pelosi’s name appears once, as having attended a session on Sept. 4, 2002, when she was the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Former Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., who at the time was the chairman of the committee and later became CIA director, also was present.

As Speaker Pelosi attempted to back away from responsibility and knowledge of the CIAs tactics she accused the Central Intelligence Agency of lying about the briefings.

“Yes I am saying the CIA was misleading the Congress”

Today House Minority Leader John Boehner called out The Speaker of the House saying she needs to put up or shut up.  Boehner thinks Pelosi should present either evidence of a deception or an apology.

“Lying to Congress is a crime. Purposely misleading Congress is a crime. And if the speaker is accusing the intelligence community of lying to her or purposefully misleading her, then she ought to present that evidence, turn it over to the Justice Department, have them prosecute it.”

She has yet to produce evidence that she was lied too. Yet the CIA has released several statements dismissing the allegations. A good deal of the tell tail documents concerning this topic that would prove to be the smoking gun are classified, Pelosi is counting on these documents never coming to light. She has changed her story numerous times concerning her knowledge of water boarding and other “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”. Originally she knew nothing, that story has evolved into knowing a little bit.

In my opinion

First off:

The Speakers’ story doesn’t add up. Why would the CIA lie about their methods when The Bush Administration told them it was legal and within the standards of treatment? They had no reason to deceive any one.

CIA Director Leon Panetta , a former Democratic lawmaker from Pelosi’s home state of California, said records from the period “indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of (terrorist suspect) Abu Zubaydah, describing `the enhanced techniques that had been employed.’”

Many of her own colleagues and Democrat partners are backing away from her statements and some, as stated above, are even siding against her.

I think she’s a liar and a traitor and I know I’m not the only one.

Secondly:

I don’t have a problem with waterboarding. Any means necessary, that’s what we should employ to gain intelligence from these scum of the earth murderers. Nothing should be off limits. We should also let their fellow killers back home know what will happen to them if they mess with us.

I am not convinced that these tactics, or any others for that matter, are too harsh to be used on people who would gladly die to kill us anyway. They are all martyrs are they not?

What I would consider too harsh is crashing an airliner into a building they are trapped in and letting them die under a heap of rubble and burning jet fuel— Oh wait! Thats what they did to us. Remember? 19 Hijackers were hailed as heroes in their home lands for murdering 3000 people.

In short I don’t give a damn about what happens to any of these murderous thugs. Let them out of Gitmo, but let them out in the middle of the ocean in shark infested waters and let them swim for it, just don’t forget to chum the waters first.

How does Waterboarding sound now?

Its a Cracked World when we cannot trust our own government figures to put America ahead of their own self interests.

Tags: Nancy Pelosi, National Security, Politics
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