Pelosi Aide Told Her Waterboarding Was Used In 2003
Liar liar pants on fire:
WASHINGTON (CNN)—A source close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now confirms that Pelosi was told in February 2003 by her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, that waterboarding was actually used on CIA detainee Abu Zubaydah.
This appears to contradict Pelosi’s account that she was never told waterboarding actually happened, only that the administration was considering using it.
Sheehy attended a briefing in which waterboarding was discussed in February 2003, with Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, who took over Pelosi’s spot as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Apparently, Pelosi’s story now is that she didn’t object to the wateboarding because she hadn’t been told directly.
This source says Pelosi didn’t object when she learned that waterboarding was being used because she had not been personally briefed about it—only her aide had been told.
Pelosi’s in trouble, and it would seem as though the proverbial “long knives” are coming out for her in Congress given that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (who would presumably be next in line for the Speaker’s chair should Pelosi be forced to step down) is now calling for full disclosure.
If there were any justice in the world, Pelosi’s lies on this subject would get her booted from the Speaker’s chair. If not unelected in the next election entirely.
