Thursday, May 7, 2009

Surprise, Surprise. Pelosi Lies.

Just in from the Weekly Standard blogsite.

Pelosi on April 23, parsing the difference between whether the techniques could be used or would be used." In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel ... opinions that they could be used," she told reporters today.
And ABC reports today:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah in September 2002, according to a report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence’s office and obtained by ABC News.
The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics. Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques.

And also this from the same site. Rep. Adam Schiff (D, CA)

“I think we can use the Uniform Code of Military Justice in the military courts which are very much a home-court advantage and we can hold up to the rest of the world that we’re giving these detainees the same due process we give our own troops when they’re brought up on court martial charges. Nothing more and nothing less.”

That's right. Let's give terrorists the same due process we give the soldiers protecting our country. A textbook example of what's wrong with the Democratic party. And it's a very thick textbook.

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