Most of the media are going with headlines that say something like “CIA director says Pelosi received the truth,” rather then the more truthful and germane “Pelosi lied,” but, since Pelosi is not loved and adored and treated like a rock star or messiah, those headlines are sure to come. The Credentialed Media smells blood in the water, and Leo Panetta is putting some of it there
CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth.
Panetta said that “ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened.”
Panetta, President Obama’s pick to run the clandestine agency and President Clinton’s former chief of staff, wrote in a memo to CIA employees Friday that “CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing ‘the enhanced techniques that had been employed,'” according to CIA records.
Interesting question: Madame Speaker is a take charge wants to know everything type of gal, one of the reasons she is Speaker of the House. If she sent someone to the briefings (I’m kinda wondering why staff flunkies are aloud to attend high security briefings), is there anyone out there who doesn’t think she wrung every single detail from that person afterwards? Perhaps required a written record? There’s an old saying: the easiest story to tell is the one that is the complete truth. It’s not easy to remember which lie you told, and what the details were.
Asked why she didn’t co-sign a formal objection by Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), who attended the briefing with Pelosi aide Mike Sheehy, Pelosi said any objection would have done little good.
“No letter could change the policy,” she said on May 14 at a news conference. “It was clear we had to change the leadership in Congress and in the White House. That was my job, the Congress part.”Â
Perhaps not, but it would have show you objected to the enhanced interrogation techniques, Queen Nancy. So much for standing up for what you (supposedly) believed in, Nancy. Keep spinning. Sooner or later, you will say something that you really wish you could suck back in.
Now, Panetta’s message to the CIA employees called this a distraction, and, he’s right. It does distract a group by calling the whole body liars. But, I wonder when high ranking Democrats, who defend, or have to defend for whatever reason, Pelosi will come out and start calling this whole issue one of those “distractions that keep us from discussing the issues that Americans care about.” Most people do not care about some stone cold al Qaeda members being water boarded 6 years ago. They remember 3,000 dead friends, neighbors, and loved ones. It’s only the hard left that wants to live in the past. And, the past has a way of turning around and biting people in the butt.
The Wall Street Journal has more.
Queen Foot In Mouth is also now trying to spin it as if it was all an evil Bush plot. MoveOn, Nancy, MoveOn. Check Hot Air for the details.
