I really wouldn’t have expected anything less from the liberal House.  This is probably the most progressive House we have had in a long time and it unfortunately gives Pelosi a lot of leeway to get away with impeachable offenses like throwing an entire intelligence agency under the bus and accusing them of lying.

House Republican Leader John Boehner on Thursday demanded that a bipartisan congressional panel investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against a terrorism suspect.

“We have no choice,” Boehner told reporters, arguing that Pelosi’s remarks were having a chilling effect on the intelligence community.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, introduced a resolution on Boehner’s behalf calling for the probe.

Even though Democrats want to argue that this is a partisan investigation, what would they call their little truth commission of the Bush administration?  I also would like to know, as an independent thinker, who is telling the truth here, the CIA or Nancy Pelosi?  I think it’s important for the American public to get the facts, but the House voted against the probeand stated that Nancy Pelosi already requested the declassification of her notes/files which would corroborate her claims.

House Democrats have defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.

The House voted 252-172 to block the measure that would have created a bipartisan congressional panel.

If Nancy really did request that information, will she publish her request that she sent to the CIA like Dick Cheney did?  Remember how the media and the leftist bloggers questioned Cheney’s honesty when he said he made a request to the CIA?

Hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites – how many times can it be said – it’s getting really old and tiresome.

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You don’t think there could be a reason she is hiding do you?  Could it be that she doesn’t want to be trapped in yet another lie or contradictions from previous recollections of her CIA briefings?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) turned down invitations to be on several Sunday morning talk shows and is instead spending the weekend with her family.

The Speaker was invited to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” ABC’s “This Week,” “Fox News Sunday” and CNN’s “State of the Union,” according to sources at the networks.

One source said Pelosi (D-Calif.) will be attending her granddaughter’s first communion in Phoenix on Sunday.

The Sunday morning talk show circuit is a traditional place to find politicians trying to recover from political missteps or trying to explain themselves after a week at the top of the news cycle. It can also give them a chance to set the agenda for the week ahead. A Sunday show appearance, with its in-depth, one-on-one interview format, gives politicians a chance to answer many questions on a specific topic, often resulting in a controversy being put to bed.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), for example, opted to go on the Sunday morning show circuit after his decision to switch parties, appearing on “Meet the Press” and CBS’ “Face the Nation” on May 3.

Am I buying the “communion?”  Nope!  Everyone knows that you go on the Sunday morning circuit if there are current events going on in which you are involved… As many of us already know, the controversies will not be put to bed because Nancy Pelosi is not smart enough to lie well and tends to put her foot in her mouth.  The fact that these lies are directed at the national intelligence community only hurts her more.

I think it might be time to find out the truth!

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I will be taking bets later… Make a guess for Pelosi stepping down this year…

The sharks are circling and the Democrats sense it.  Steny Hoyer wants to be speaker and other Democrats don’t want to be associated with this woman or her statements.  Even lefty Leon Panetta is backing the CIA and speaking to his employees to reassure them that they acted appropriately and nobody lied or misled congress.

CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticisms.

His message: We didn’t mislead Congress; stay focused on your job.

Panetta’s note was sent to reporters via the CIA press office. Here’s the key graph:

“Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values. As the Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing “the enhanced techniques that had been employed.” Ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened.”

The full Panetta memo is here.

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Democrats may have begun to eat their own.

Steny Hoyer, Democrat representative of Maryland and current House Majority leader has been purported to have a long held grudge against Pelosi ever since she became speaker.  It appears as if many Democrats are letting Pelosi hang herself and slowly backing away from her and her statements regarding the CIA made earlier today.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House majority leader, panned the recent criticism of Pelosi as a “distraction” during a verbal tangle with Republican Whip Eric Cantor on the House floor.

But when asked directly whether he shares Pelosi’s belief that the CIA misled Congress, he backed off.

“I have no idea of that. I don’t have a belief of that nature because I have no basis on which to base such a belief,” Hoyer said. “And I certainly hope that’s not the case. And I don’t draw that conclusion.”

Other members of Congress are also not backing up Pelosi’s claims.  Senator Lieberman was interviewd on NBC today and supported the CIA over Nancy Pelosi’s “misleading” statements.

Time to break out the popcorn… it was only a matter of time – I’m sure this won’t be the last either!

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The Obama administration has turned down former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request for the declassification of two CIA reports on the effectiveness of the Agency’s detainee program, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned. A letter dated May 7, 2009, from the CIA’s Information and Privacy Coordinator, Delores M. Nelson, rejected Cheney’s request because the documents he has requested are involved in a Freedom of Information Act court battle.

“In researching the information in question, we have discovered that it is currently the subject of pending FOIA litigation (Bloche v. Department of Defense, Amnesty International v. Central Intelligence Agency). Therefore, the document is excluded from Mandatory Declassification Review,” Nelson wrote in the letter to the National Archives, the agency responsible for handling Cheney’s request.

This is bad news, but also good – it means that these memos do in fact exist, they are just unfortunately caught up in bureaucratic red tape.  This will most likely lead Dick Cheney to continue his offensive against the “truth commission,” the reference of “torture,” and the release of the CIA memos in the first place.

UPDATE:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will appeal a CIA decision denying his request for the release of memos he’s contended are crucial to proving the success of “enhanced interrogation techniques” of detainees.

Cheney’s office released a two-sentence statement reacting to the denial, “The Obama Administration has denied Vice President Cheney’s request for the declassification of two documents that provide information about the effectiveness of the detainee program. Vice President Cheney is preparing his appeal to this denial.”

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Nancy Pelosi continues to dig herself a deeper hole.  She says one thing then another, but then she says something else entirely a week later.  It’s quite obvious that this woman is a lying weasel.  She should be interrogated intensely or at least strapped to a lie detector test.  I’m so tired of this woman and uber liberals who spin information for a political agenda without any regard for national security.

Nancy Pelosi stated that she received inaccurate and misleading information.  She continued to say that the CIA misled the Congress, even though other members who attended the briefings state otherwise and have a different recollection of the information provided.  The CIA is not an entity I would want to mess with or malign for self-centered political gain.

Republicans and Democrats are requesting that the CIA release and declassify the notes from the briefings.  What political motives does the CIA have to “mislead” the public?  They don’t get voted in or need to worry about what they say or do to make a constituency happy…

It should be appalling to everyone that Piglosi actually stated that she was more concerned with politics than the security of Americans when she admitted that she was not aware of the policies, although ranking members are usually kept completely abreast of any and all information in Congress, but rather, the next elections to gain a Democrat majority.

At what point can you impeach or fire a member of Congress for lying or perjury?

Here is a video clip of Piglosi lying out of her teeth:

For Republican reaction go here…

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Time to give credit where credit is due.  I’m glad to see that Obama had the sense about him to reverse his original notion to release the detainee photos which would have caused greater damage to our nation, our troops, and our national security, on top of the CIA memo release:

In a dramatic and high-profile reversal for his young administration, President Barack Obama is seeking to block the release of 44 photographs depicting abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Justice Department had already agreed to release the photos by May 28 in response to a lawsuit, but Obama is shifting course.

“Last week, the President met with his legal team and told them that he did not feel comfortable with the release of the DOD photos because he believes their release would endanger our troops, and because he believes that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented to the court,” said a White House official who asked not to be named.

“At the end of that meeting, the President directed his counsel to object to the immediate release of the photos on those grounds,” the official said.

At least some of the polling data that is decent, such as the majority of Americans disagreeing with the photo release decision, is being listened to.

Obama’s reversal is sure to set off an outcry on the left, which has pushed the Obama administration to come clean about interrogation policies and other actions carried out by the Bush administration.

I better see some of those “coexist” people and the liberals who protest every single aspect of war, protesting this and Obama.  I don’t much care for hypocrites so I hope they stand true to their principles and are upset about the change of heart… I won’t hold my breath, although I think some of the true progressives will protest just about anything (code pink?)

Obama endorsed such openness during the campaign – and even released memos detailing interrogation practices critics call torture.

Obama has come nowhere near keeping his promise of transparency in the government.  He has had several opportunities to do so, not just regarding national security items, and he has chosen the opposite.

All I can say is that I am pleased with this decision from his administration at least!

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We all knew that Ms. Piglosi was lying from the get go when new information came to light regarding who was privy to the CIA briefing about interrogation methods, namely waterboarding.  She came up with a Bill ‘Clintonesque’ to attempt to confuse anybody who can’t read or surf the net. 

She admitted the CIA briefed her and others on interrogation methods, including waterboarding, on suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay prison.  BUT her excuse was she didn’t know that they would ACTUALLY use those methods on the terrorists.  She then asked what the definition of IS, is.

Most of us were not born yesterday, so it was obvious she was grasping at straws during her press conference.  However, there was no proof, only “he said, she said,” of the briefing; that is until the CIA released their briefing report yesterday.

Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered “EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah.” EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.

*EITs = Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

Human Events obtained the list of those who were briefed and privy to the interrogation techniques in 2002 – and not surprisingly, Democrat after Democrat is listed on this document:

• Nancy Pelosi
• John Rockefeller
• Harry Reid
• Dianne Feinstein
• Jane Harman
• Babs Mikulski
• John Murtha
• Adam Schiff
• Carl Levin
• Russ Feingold
• Evan Bayh
• Bob Graham

They are going to need another made up CRISIS to get out of this one!

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Human Events reports:

Moving quickly to release Chinese Uighur terrorists into the United States, Obama administration officials have — for the second time — overridden objections of federal agencies responsible for national security.

The first time — as I reported on April 20 — the White House overrode the inter-agency panel it created from all the national security agencies to review all the cases of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. That panel found that the seventeen Uighurs — members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan — were too dangerous to release in the United States.

I reported in more detail here.

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Ms. Cheney rocks this interview and she is one heck of a debater!

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