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What a capital C this woman is.

This woman is a bold faced liar..she knew exactly what was going on..just like harry reid knew..just like obama knew..just like it costs the taxpayers a hundred grand every weekend to fly her back and forth to california in a gulfstream 5..she reminds me of seahag from Popeye cartoons..To bad she didn't listen to the Pope

Of course she is lying. That is what Dems do best. It is fun watching the liberals like Sniffit on here who can't admit it and fall back on childish name calling because they don't have a good defense for her. Liberal Democrat arguments never make sense and it is definitely starting to fall apart on this one too. Nice try though.

10 out of 10 terrorists recommend voting democrat. Pelosi is nothing but a stupid lib that thinks these ragheads are our friends. Its ok to abort kids, but don't make a raghead uncomfortable. Friggin moron!

Waterboarding is not torture. Cutting off fingers, electroshock therapy, and bloody beatings are torture.

A terrorist won't talk? Bring on the water!

Candya$$ed libs in power are the end of the USA.

liberalism.is.a.sickness May 8th, 2009 5:39 pm ET

I heard an interesting discussion about this last night. According to dems it is ok for Obama to order the bombing of a village in Pakistan where he knows that some civilians, women and children will be killed in order to kill high ranking Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. But to catch a high ranking Al-Qaeda member and submit him to water-boarding with a DR. standing by to gather information that could save lives is so wrong??? Please justify this?
The truth is this is all political!

Lets go moderate this already!"

I am a liberal, and NOT sick...and for your information, I think both examples are heinous crimes. If Obama did this, he should also be accountable. Waterboarding IS torture, killing of innocent people is never justified, and I do not recognize this country any more. We sure aren't Christian...the conservatives rant about abortion, but are quite content with torture, the death penalty, and the hundreds of thousand of innocents who have died in Iraq by our hand. You cannot have it both ways. You either value all life, or you're as much a barbarian as any terrorist.

She knew it,the fear was all over her face,Cheney made sure she knew so he could blackmail her.

I've voted democrat for the last 20+ years and I think she's either lying or incredibly stupid. What was the logical next event after the last administration said the techniques were legal?

I honestly cannot recall the last good decision Ms. Pelosi has made, yet the media seems to always use its kids gloves on her. Why?

There are plenty of competent Democrats in CA who could replace this woman – like some of the others have said, start portraying her as the inept, divisive politician she really is and let's get some new representation...soon!

Liar!! Either that or senile and just "forgot". She has a "convenient" memory.

This torture stuff has come about soley because of Democrat political hype. Just as Hillary and Kerry were voting for the war in 2002, Nancy liked to get her feet wet as well. Funny how the masses have been missing this over and over all because Bush talks like a Texan.lol No one would admit that though, no.lol

Misery likes company......Republicans are doing what they do best - short circuiting the truth.....I believe Spkr. Pelosi when she says she was told about the intentions to torture, but the Bush administration did not follow through and report back to her about the specifics - mainly waterboarding......Some dislike her because she is outspoken and not easily intimidated........Some men have a problem with her persona and her position......

Cheney had his house taken off Google Earth! Cheney said his office was neither in the Executive branch nor the Legislative branch and outed a CIA agent in time of war to protect their secrets.

There's no way they were telling Dems what they were actually up to.

Well here's the latest scoop on this issue:

"House speaker amends claim that she was not told about interrogation methods after records show she was briefed."

Like I said in a previous post, why vote these untrustworthy folks in? An uneducated, honest, hardworking, common home-maker would make wiser decisions, by far.

Typical. this is the same one that criticizes the auto industry for corporate jet use when she flies WEEKLY from CA to Wash for her job. And by the way, flies a bigger jet because she doesn't want to stop for fuel!!! We have some people in Washington really looking out for us, don't we? Dems for the working man?? BS!!

Piglosi is aliar and a fake! typical politician, always "denies" anything.

As much as I dislike Pelosi, I distrust any attempts by the CIA and Republicans to cover up and gain justification of the actions by proclaiming open knowledge.

I seem to recall the intelligence commintees complaining that they were only getting need to know breifings from the administration and intelligence officials.

First off I would like to know how CIA memos came into the hands of a Republican source? I have a real problem if we are going to have indivduals start releasing memos from our intelligence community to get back at critics. So before folks start jumping up and down lets start asking questions. I refuse to permit another abuse of the intelligence community to discredit anyone else.

And just what good would it have done her to try to do anything about it? Bush/Cheney did exactly what they wanted to do... and that was it. It did not matter to them what anyone else thought. And the Republicans had the entire Congress... they carried absolutely nothing for what the Dems thought or wanted.... and Obama needs to remember that!

Pelosi should resign immediately!!! She wants everyone else to be accountable for their mistakes, now it is her turn! She claims she did not know, anyone that stupid does not deserve one of the top positions in the US.

This is the GOP and the talking heads inside the beltway enabled by the corporate media trying to take attention away from the real criminals, Bush Cheney, et al

ok. so lets get those calls for prosecution now. pelosi is the prime example of a politician who will say anything, do anything, and will trade anything for her staying and gaining more power. i've always said that for the president his greatest problem is not the republicans, but members of his own party, especially pelosi and reid.

Lies come too easily to Nancy. Whether you agree with the interrogation techniques or not, she needs to go.

Come on San Fran, vote a normal person in for once.

(And are you serious. Why are posters still blaming Bush for everything. PELOSI WAS IN THE MEETINGS).

I am a Democrat.... this lady is the worse thing we have going for us. She is nasty and a liar and we need her out so we can move forward! How can voters anywhere be so naive? And how can we as Democrats not demand more from the rest of our leadership to move her out as Speaker of the House and appoint someone that more American's can trust and respect. The Republicans messed up on issues like this. WE were down and out 4 years ago too. Let us not forget how fast things can change if people don't stand up against this type of leadership

Notice what Nazi pelosi is saying. Nazi did not say she was not told, she said she was not told that these "methods were used". While she may be telling the truth why on earth why there be a meeting with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss and Nazi Pelosi, who was then the ranking Democrat on the committee just to say hey guys and gals here are a few techniques in our book. If you were told about a technicque you can rest assured it was with the implication that it would or cold be used. Nazi you are a liar liar pants on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think most people are missing a simple point:

Have a special prosecutor complete a detailed and intensive investigation and either exonerate or charge people for these crimes.

If nothing was wrong, then nobody will face charges and we move on.

If things do go wrong, people will face the consequences of their choices and we move on.

Either she is a liar or completely incompetent. Take your pick...

It is so amazing . . . the responses that try to blame others for Pelosi's lies. There does seem to be a common thread between certian liberals of the need to always blame others for their actions. It is the same we see out of small children not wanting to accept responsibilitiy for their own actions.

This whole controversy about "Waterboarding" was and still is being used as a political weapon by the Dems to demonize Bush and Republicans any way they can. The trully digusting thing is that they knew at the time but they continue to demonize it at the risk of weakening our security. I truely hope that the public will see Ms. pelosi for what she is and punish her and the other complicit Dems at the polls.

Nov. 2, 2010 can't come fast enough, but in the mean time we must as a country slow this frenzy of hatred and

My gut reaction is to doubt anything coming from the CIA that would make the CIA look good.

If you believe her I have some coins I would like to sell to you , she knew all along and she waited till the torture to take place so she could blame it on the bush presidency at election time.

Some time back we were commenting on one of our illustrious female Democratic leaders saying how wrong it was that one of our agencies had wire tapped HER conversations (even though she was doing something wrong). Now it seems that we should be taping, wire tapping, videoing, or otherwise watching every move that ANY of these people make if we want the TRUTH! If they are right, then no harm in these actions but if they are wrong --- maybe, just maybe we can bring them to justice.

Ah, she's a liberal.....can't believe what she says anyway...

Sorry Nancy. You were caught with your hand in the cookie jar. Just fess up and get over yourself.

i think the gop is a laughing stock.
but i do think nancy leatherface holds tis country back.

go to the botox museum nancy and please resign.

i am a democrat and feel that way.

do the right thing

Pelosi is a liar and she'd been caught time and time again. It's typical for Dems to continue to make excuses for their own. If the Dems dont clean house, they will be doomed to make the same mistakes the Repubs did. Power corrupts, and it seems that the Dems are going down as fast as you line them up.

The whole problem here is that this country cannot keep secrets anymore! Our freedom of this & that, our right to know, all those do gooders that spout freedom. BS! There are things that WE the people do not need to know. I, personally, do not beleive in torture, but, when your enemy cuts off peoples heads, uses women & children to carry bombs, kills innocent people without hesitation, then someone please tell me how to deal with them? Releasing these
EIT was wrong! Now look at what we have, everyone on the band wagon looking for hangings. If Pelosi was in the "need to know" circle then she knew what was going on. Lets go back to bush/cheney who, knowing it was illegal, intimidated others to change the laws to fit their agenda.

Liberals love to always point out Conservative "hypocrates".. This is great. this witch rails against Bush policies for 6 years... calls for investigations.. and she KNEW all along...

So funny, If this were Palin there would be 500 comments... But this will be excused in the end.. just wait.. kind of like Hillary entering Iraq under a hail of bullets... LOL...

Pelosi was informed and she knows it. Her denial is a big, fat lie. She needs to be tossed out and replaced with someone who isn't as angry and bitter.

If she had any honor, she would acknowledge the truth and resigned...fat chance of that happening.

I think she's lying!!

I am a liberal Democrat but Pelosi needs to go.

She is a black eye for Democrats during this Obama era. She is the opposite of everything he stands for.

I heard an interesting discussion about this last night. According to dems it is ok for Obama to order the bombing of a village in Pakistan where he knows that some civilians, women and children will be killed in order to kill high ranking Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. But to catch a high ranking Al-Qaeda member and submit him to water-boarding with a DR. standing by to gather information that could save lives is so wrong??? Please justify this?
The truth is this is all political!

Lets go moderate this already!

We don"t know what she was told since the Bushies were the ones giving out the information they wanted people to hear. We know how well that worked on Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.

If she was told something she didn't like, going public with the information is a felony and you can be sure that they were reminded continually of that.

Torture is a war crime. Even in the Reagan administration, the Dept of Justice prosecuted Texas Deputies for waterboarding! There will be accountability for these crimes. Any idiot who thinks waterboarding does not hurt should have it done to him/her. You would not last 10 seconds!

She's a liar, a cheat and a thief but, oh yeah, she's a democrat so that goes hand-in-hand.

Sniffit – Is it ok to torture our citizens because they supported the stimulus package or abortion? I bet you probably think it is.
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I heard an interesting discussion about this last night. According to dems it is ok for Obama to order the bombing of a village in Pakistan where he knows that some civilians, women and children will be killed in order to kill high ranking Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. But to catch a high ranking Al-Qaeda member and submit him to water-boarding with a DR. standing by to gather information that could save lives is so wrong??? Please justify this?
The truth is this is all political!

He said, She said. Everything that was used on terrorist detainees was taken from the US armed forces SERE training program. Maybe she did not think it was torture because our own military pilots and special operation forces underwent the same treatment in interrogation resistance training. Lets find out who was present at any meeting on interrogating any detainee and what was actually discussed. Openess, Transparency, Honesty lets find out who knew what.

Why is it Pelosi fails to remember things when crap hits the proverbial fan?

Of course she was informed.........

I am a Democrat. Mrs. Pelosi is a liar and an embarrassment to our party.

P.S. Why does she always look like she just soiled herself?

Even tho I am a lib, if Pelosi knew about this and/or was compicit in any way, I want it to be brought out. Any congressional dems complicit I want to know and I want them treated just as any conservative who was involved should be. Don't assume all liberals will be easier on Pelosi than they would be on any Bush admin-er. Any congressional dem who would just lay back and allow the Bush administration to do this deserves to be brought up. These are deep principles (no torture) for liberal dems, and cleaning this up supercedes andy party loyalty as far as I am concerned. And, if you listen or watch the liberal pundits (Maddow, Olberman, et al.) you will see they have no qualms about pinning their icons to the mat when they think they are wrong. It is called "integrity".

Hey Nancy!
Pants on fire!!

this is why we need term limits; its so many sandbaggers up on capital hill its sad. they are experts at manipulating the system. i believe that after 3 terms in office you should go. heck yes she knew about it torture. i just hope the president and his staff treats this woman w/kid gloves, but also with a long handled spoon. i just get bad ju ju about her. can anyone fresh and new run against her in california................. please. lets turn a new tide on these parties in DC. its time to hit the road jack.

Blame all the illegals in CA who voted for her.
We need an IQ test to vote.

You can tell when Ms. Pelosi lies.....her mouth moves!!

Pelosi is lying, period the end.

The lady doth protest too much!

Ya' know what is funny, I do not normally agree with you so called conservatives but on this topic, I have too. She knew, all of them knew. They turned a blind out out of fear of being called soft on terror, which was the republican battle cry as a reason not to elect democrats. Please Nancy, you are full of it. Be careful what you ask for Nancy and Harry, don't throw stones when your house is made of glass. All you die hard libs quit making excuses for Nancy and Harry. They knew that torture was wrong and did nothing about it. Those 2 cowards would rather remain on their knees to get votes, then stand on their feet and fight for what's right..

A lie is a lie and she got caught with Harry's foot in her mouth, and the CIA's foot up her ... !

If she knew, put her in the dock with Cheney, Rummy, Condi, and Dubya! We need to cut torture out like a cancer and if that involves some enablers with D's after their names (Pelosi, Feinstein, Rockefeller, Harman), so be it!

From what you read in the comments you can see why our country is in trouble. Remarks of some are close to hate.

To all of you who cannot quit bashing Bush and Cheney.......get over it. I may not have agreed with everything that was said or done.....but, I can thank God every day that since 9/11 there has been no other attacks in our country. If waterboarding is not against the Geneva Convention, then how in the world can you call it torture? As for Pelosi.........who ever voted her in I hope votes her back out. It is funny that she can speak out both sides of her mouth and there are so many idiots out there that make excuse, after excuse for her. If it was all Cheney and Bush then why has Cheney been screaming to release more memos? Obviously if he had something to hide he would be screaming to not release any more........I think its kind of funny that at first they were all gung ho to expose the "torture" approved by previous administration until they realized ooops.....one of ours is in there....so now the decision is being made to not release any more.......hmmm if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, probably is a duck.............

The right wing GOP party of no will look to scapegoat anything and anyone. If she did she just looks silly but Bush and Cheney were the ultimate "deciders" who should be held accountable. They should be held for crimes against humanity for all they did.

@ Mississippi Mike, who said "We have no moral obligation to be civil to people who have every intention of destroying us physically and emotionally. "

And as lovely as that sounds, what happens when the scrutiny gets turned on you because the standard is so wishy-washy? Hmmm? Is it ok to torture our citizens because they supported the stimulus package or abortion? I bet you probably think it is.

From what you read here, You can see why our country is in trouble.

This is a right-wing, hillbilly, redneck, uneducated, homophobia conspiracy. Whoever provided this information had to have voted for Bush and gre up in a trailer park...

Panic Pelosi!!!-She NEEDS to GO!!!!-remember people-me thinks she protests toooooo much!!!-Just like Jesse Jackson Jr.-with Blago-just like Clinton-"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"-and just like Tricky Dick-"I'm not a Crook"

All in DC need to be ousted-TERM LIMITS-starting with Pelosi!!!

Give me a break…I had more torture as a fraternity pledge during Hellweek. Does that give me the right to charge my frat president with war crimes?

Nancy, here’s your defense… "I don't recall being briefed. I think I was getting an injection that day, but even if I was there, I can't remember it. And even if I could remember it, botox has rendered me unable to process the information. But thank god, I look 5 years younger!"

i wish cnn would look at this page and report on how average america is responding instead of sticking up for her

Hey Stupidity

You really are stupid because you miss the entire point. This issue with "Nancy" has nothing to do with Bush or Cheney, it is about her not telling the truth as to what she was or was not told.

She has been a problem to this country longer than Bush! The people of San Fran have to be the dumbest people in the nation to keep voting this witch into office!

Shouldn't she be flying around in some government jet? Any Dem who believes in her is a lost cause!

Bill B. from Stratford CT@ Calm down Obama man and smoke another joint.

Pelosi should have objected. She's not blameless.

But her culpability as someone who knew what evil the Bushists were contemplating and did nothing is not close to the culpability of the Bushists who conceived that evil, rationalized it with lies, and did it.

The conservatives here fail to understand proportionality, as usual.

I just find it incredibly ironic that all of the minority-conservative-right-wing-republicans are now screaming at the top of their lungs about what a liar Nancy Pelosi is and how she should be impeached. Aren't you the same people who have been screaming that Bush and his pals did nothing wrong when they tortured these people??? Then, by the same token, doesn't it stand to reason that Nancy Pelosi did nothing wrong if she knew and didn't say anything? You can't have it both ways folks . . . sorry.

I say . . . investigate, investigate, investigate. If Ms. Pelosi is found to have broken laws then she should be prosecuted along with all the rest. I'm willing to see where the chips fall . . . .are the rest of you "Bushies"?

The gist of this article is: The CIA-prepared memo, provided to CNN by "Republican sources."

The briefing was arranged then by REPUBLICANS for a REPUBLICAN President who wanted to torture. At that time, no one could question Bush about anything, the GOP used 9/11 as an excuse for EVERYTHING.

Finally, Cheney has been saying for weeks he LIKES waterboarding......so how can you get down on Pelosi at all for this? Again, the GOP leaks info they think will make Dems look bad, but it only makes Bush and Cheney look WORSE. Clean your own house, GOP.

Yes, Pelosi is a liar.

Seems odd she claims she is against waterboarding terrorists but would be okay with aborting them before birth.

Maybe Georgie told her Waterboarding was off the table?? What a pittyful Speaker!!!

I have to say I'm surprised at the majority of comments here on a CNN left wing news source. Someone is not going to be re-elected. It is hard to believe out of all those millions of sperm, she swam the fastest.

Rangers Lead The Way!

And she's 3rd in line to the presidency....jeez that's just great. Between her & Hillary, I feel so safe at night.....where are Elmer Fudd & Sylvester when you need them....And before anyone starts waling away on me...I'm a woman & voted Democrat most of my adult life...these people are just an embarrassment

why does pelosi have control over our states she does nothing for us only california....put her out and all the other lying congress..

Is it just me or does every photo of Nancy Pelosi make you think of that one aunt you couldn't stand to kiss. She has terminal cooties and should be impeached for it.

still finger pointing .. we should learn our lessons from the past not repeat the ones that didn't work or were not legal. most important thing for this country and the world is . try using common sense and not great and power to make desisions that can end up in a negative solution. we are on the threash hold of a new begining of rebuilding our relations all over the world and try to bring peace and stubility to the world . lets focus on new technology and humanity and returning our planet to a stable breathable eatable recyclable place to live.
life is short wake up every morning and put a smle on your face and break the habits of cruel and selfish ideals.
no one in the world is perfect ,but we can try to change are world into a safe productive planet

lets put pelosi out and reid....pelosi knew ...reid knew...who cares the lying b-ch...lets put term limits who the hell can change paties so he can get re-elected again after being in office for 29 years...he is a republican no-matter what he says he is....

It's not her fault! She thought they were surfing!

Bush had eight years starting in 2000. In fact Bush had a rubber stamp congress that did not let the American people have a respectable dialog on the war against "Saddam in Iraq". The war in Iraq should of been a war against "Al Queda terror" instead our sons and daughters got involved in war that made most of the Muslim world and Europe against America. It would of been better to remove Saddam thru the CIA maybe thru assassination. This could of prevented 4000 American service men and women from dying on a foreign land.
The economy went the same way. Bush Administration was so convinced that nothing was wrong, that it did nothing to monitor it . This advice from conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Phil Graham, Karl Rove had more of Bush's ear than Laura Bush.

Nancy Pelosi is a true American hero! Nancy stopped the democrats talk on impeaching Bush over 2 years ago. And this is not going to be a perfect stimulus package, lucky for you conservatives. But the conservative, right wingers, or extremists, neo-con philosophy "trickle down economics" does not work.

Ellie, what planet are you on? Did you have LSD for breakfast?

The biggest mistake a voter can make is to be ignorant of what a politician is.

A person who says what needs to be said to get into office.
A person who blames the other party for all that is wrong with the govt.
A person who claims their party is better for the people they represent than the other party.
A person who's job is to get into office and once there STAY in office by getting reelected.
A person who has his OWN political best interest in mind BUT those they represents interests are a DISTANT second (sometimes those interests coincide but not often)

Politics has been this way for many generations and REMAINS this way.

To have any other image of a politician is delusional and has no historical evidence.

Ms Pelosi is learning the hazard and danger of transparency in govt, most people will not like what they see.

The more things change.... the more they stay the same.

You right wingers crack me up First you say Bush and Cheney did not torture What they did Kept us safe so why the Pelosi Bashing? You should be ok with this right wingers Just like your Ok with Bush and Cheney cant Have it both ways you people are Laughable!

Just another power hungry, rise to the top at all costs lying, cheating, conniving politician. And to make it worse, a San Francisco Democratic lying, cheating, conniving politician. Go away, Nancy.

Seems to Me Republicans are trying to Pass the Buck off to Pelosi TO COVER THEIR OWN PATHETIC A–ES Dick Cheney is definatley Involed in this new allegation

That woman is so discusting I bet neither Bill Clinton nor John Edwards would sleep with her!

Why doesn't she testify before congress under oath? If this was a Republican the libs would've already called hearings to railroad someone into perjury as with the valerie plume case.

Perhaps she was there, just not paying attention.

Have a full investigation and make she (Pelosi) and Harry Reid face the same war criminal charges as people want for Bush\Cheney.

I pray everyday this witch ends up in Forest Lawn. This is really where she needs to be.

Pelosi isn't guilty, because it really wasn't torture. We've been telling you doofus liberals that for several months. She voted yes on doing waterboarding because it isn't illegal.

And I have to laugh at people who claim the CIA did this because they are Bush political hacks. Do you even know anything? The CIA was decidedly anti-Bush administration for 8 years. The Wilson-Plame lies were concoted by CIA people past and present.

Bill B from Stratford, you are just a pathetic liberal. You are a scumbag, sir. Same for you, Ellie in MD. You are an idiot. Bane Urinen, you are an idiot, also. They aren't war crimes. Please educate yourself. Squigman, no one is trying to spread the blame. It wasn't torture, the senate voted on that and voted that it wasn't. The reason this is going on is because Pelosi is a pathetic liar and has now been caught in that lie.

All this has done is prove that this was a witch hunt from the start and now Obama wil back off the idiotic threat of prosecuting anyone. It doesn't matter, though, because they are in the process of ruining those lawyers' careers instead. Just pathetic. I wish the Republicans played as dirty as scumbag Democrats when the Reps are in power.

Squigman May 8th, 2009 4:13 pm ET

Who cares if she was told or not. The fact remains, Cheney and Bush allowed it to happen. The republican party, would be well advised not to attempt to spread blame for their mistakes. Bush and Cheney, are the mistakes made by the republican(s).

No,the fact remains that Democrats are vilifying Republicans for this while Democrats were fully aware what was happening. Ever heard of the pot calling the waterboard black?

If the Democrats want to prosecute those responsible for torture or allowing torture, they should pack their toothbrushes now. They also signed off on its use by their inaction. By failing to ask the proper questions, if any at all, they allowed it to happen and are just as responsible. They had better be careful what they ask for.

This is the same person who said she did not know about Rep Harman being wiretapped, then reversed course 24 hours later and said she did.

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Another case of selective hearing......similar to Obama sitting in a Church for 20 years without being aware of the sermons...either in content or in attitude............

Dear Ellie in MD:

Lay of the drugs lady!

Someone at the briefing mentioned "enhanced interrogation techniques" and the Speaker had zero interest in asking what that meant?

Guess the botox has blown her brains out of her head.

This is just another cynical Rethuglican strategy to change the subject which is who authorized these techniques. It is not who knew about them but who had the power to make them happen. This falls on the neck of Bush and Cheney and those who enabled this to happen. Typical Rethuglican "accountability". I don't know how any American could ever trust a Rethuglican ever again.

Wow, so far only two Liberal apologists sticking up for her, sorry apologists of all that is Liberal, there ARE MORE that knew of, knew about and either asked if we needed to do more OR SAID NOTHING when they were told.

Guess what Pelosi, if you had a modicum of guts and told the truth that you knew and thought it was the right thing to do, I WOULD THANK YOU FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING.

It saved lives, it is in the OLD memo's that there were THREE people, all high level TERRORISTS that laughed at us and our methods, so after they got waterboarded with a DOCTOR present they changed their tune and gave info that saved LIVES in NY and Cally and gave us better insight into what the TERRORISTS were doing and that SAVED LIVES of AMERICANS. FACT, it is in the memo's that Obambi read, but won't release, because it would again show the fraud that he is.

Wake up AMERICA your being hoodwinked.

She is lying and she knows it!

Where is the outcry from the left to try Nancy Pelosi as a war criminal? I love Squigman's obvious party first attitude. Newsflash...stop the hypocrisy.

Who votes for her? She is a pompous liberal, and now a proven liar.

Go Away Pelosi..you CROOK and take Harry with you also. Both of you are the WORST OF THE WORST. Obama should replace you. You are a crook and the thought of you being in line for the Presidency is very disturbing. Do AMERICA a favor and resign!!!!

who really believes this woman?

"racist GOP trying to pin an italian!" -Sniffet

You get a 10 out of 10 for intended humor! I'm sure you have plenty of libtards thinking to themselves that the GOP really is going after an Italian.

Aren't Liberals cute?

Jeff in Virgina....get real. Leon Panetta is head of the CIA now..... do you really believe he would release anything but the truth??????

Prosecute them ALL. If she knew she should have to answer for it too.

Very shrewd political move by the President. Allow the CIA information to be made public knowing that it will implicate (or at least harm) your biggest challenger as leader of the Democratic party. Chicago style politics is dirty, but very effective. Well played.

It would seem that Pelosi is scrambling for a bit of "plausible deniability" here. Wouldn't it be a shame for one of the Democratic Party's "loudest" voices to be a bit more subdued were the truth to come out that she actually DID have knowledge of the practice? Again, this is another exercise in her covering her backside politically. This is not surprising...

Pelosi is just a troublemaker. Yes, she does have "selective memory". She needs to be replaced as "Speaker" – she lied!

Who cares if she was told or not. The fact remains, Cheney and Bush allowed it to happen. The republican party, would be well advised not to attempt to spread blame for their mistakes. Bush and Cheney, are the mistakes made by the republican(s).

1st – I am independant and voted for Obama.

Pelosi knew. Most of the high ranking Dems knew. They did nothing. They still don't really 'care' if it is done or not, they just want to paint it as a Republican issue and problem. One that Obama and the Dems are "changing" for the 'better'. Well, lets hope its for the better.

Pelosi and most of the Dems and Republicans are the problem we have. This is all politics all the time. I am sick of it. The American public is sick of it. Starting doing something real and stop hiding behind the mistakes of the Bush Administration.

Much ado about NOTHING! And what we know is Wshington is STILL dominated by liars!

Now that republicans can no longer go after Barack, they are going after the speaker of the house.....

You will see how they will be going after one member at a time~

Pelosi is a bold faced liar. Today, it was reported that she knew exactly what was happening. As an attorney, she should have asked if there were any questions. Playing dumb works for her well.

A liar's a liar, and a torturer is a torturer. I don't care WHAT side of the aisle they sit on. St. Patrick (Leahy) needs to drive these torturing snakes from the Congress.

I think most people would agree that anyone involved in any way with these (obvious) war crimes must face the judicial system.

If a person is innocent and the actions are legal, then there is nothing to fear. If the person committed a crime, they must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

imho, Pelosi's entire defense is bogus and she has seemed to be far to eager to ignore these crimes in the past.

Let's see how she finagle herself out of this one.

Further proves you can't turst ANY party. I learned that the hard way after the Dems through Hillary Clinton under the bus during the primary season.

What a joke. I say we should water-board the Speaker that will get us to the truth!

What a freaking hypocrite just like all the dems that voted yes to go to war with Iraq, then turned around and opposed the war when it became politically favorable.

Give it up, Nancy. You're just a liar – and a poor one at that.

I hope all those voter in San Fran now realize what a lying hypocrate Pelosi is and votes her sorry you know what out of office in 2010.

Personally I believe both parties knew what was going on, just like both parties supported the "Patriot Act" and may no mistake about it ladies and gentlemen that law will come back and bite a lot of american. They were all frighten into do things that went against everything american stands for, I feel they should all go to jail.

I bet she's lying.....her mouth moved!

The photo of a liar!

Now starts the tug of war and the GOP will declare itself a sore victor, shall we say? C'mon folks, get this torture tale over with and try to tackle other tantalizin' threats to the country, such as the terrible woes of treasury toothaches.

Is a Pelosi lieing?

It depends on what your definition if is, is....
Where have I heard that before?

Well, this is not about pelosi, this about cheney and bush, they should BOTH be in prison for violating our constitution, and so should rove and I guess pelosi if she condoned this, BUT she is denying it, bush and dick admitted to violating the constitution, so they should have the trial skipped and go STRAIGHT to jail!!

typical – selective memory again.

Isn't Pelosi the third in line if anything were to happen to the president and vice president? And she's swearing up and down she had no knowledge of the waterboarding? This piece of crap needs to be thrown out of office just like the lying president and idiot vice president!

Of course she is disputing it... so she can have the moral authority to condemn Bush over it.

We need full disclosure about who knew when and if Nancy Pelosi is one of these who knew that should be disclosed. The GOP says that if the current administration investigates the George W. Bush administration, it will "investigate" the Clinton administration on matters of rendition and the like. Lets have full disclosure! If Pelosi knew, then deal with the cascading reprimands that would come forth. This is going forward AND backward as well, so the Obama administration can do both and not be casigated for this! As Bush once said. "Bring em on!"

Only in California could anyone like her get elected. How did she get elected speaker? Does she have photographs, nudge nudge you know what I mean.

Pelosi is lying again.

Pelosi has no crediability in my book. Is she now saying the CIA is lying? To see her hymm and haw and stutter and carefully wording what she says, shows me that she knew all along, she has just gotten caught. I will love to see how the LIberals tackle this one. Prez. Obama sure did open up a can of worms on this one. I guess be careful of what you wish for. he was so intense on hacking Bush he forgot about his Speaker of the House. Nancy better go get some more Botox so you can keep a straight face while you continue to lie about this.

Liar,liar, pants on fire.

So either Pelosi is lying now, or she didn't understand what was being told to her then.

In either case, certainly NOT the caliber of House Speaker that the US deserves.

Liar!

The headline should be “Nancy Pelosi LIED”.

What a disgrace, the first woman speaker of the house and she is turned out to be a manipulative LIER.

Let’s have an investigation and get to the bottom of this.
She character assassinated Bush for 8 years and all along she knew and didn’t object until it was out.

If this is not hypocrisy at it’s worst I don’t know what is, oh, I know Guantanamo would be in the same level.

Impeach Pelosi, impeach Pelosi, impeach Pelosi.

Republicans and the CIA are MESSING with the WRONG WOMAN in Congress. These SHADY Cheney traitors are trying to cover their asses, and their trying to use Nancy Pelosi as their scapegoat, but she's NOT HAVING IT!! Cheney was the MASTERMIND behind this whole TORTURE scheme. He was working behind George W. Bush's back the whole time. Dick Cheney KNOWS all the roads lead back to HIM!!! That's WHY Cheney is talking so much CRAP right now, he's throwing blame and everyone ELSE but him. Cheney is looking out for CHENEY!! Dick Cheney will sell his own mother, daughter and wife to save his traitor butt!!

Nancy Pelosi is NOT going to take a back seat to the back-stabbing by the Republicans and CIA in their attempts to COVER THEIR SORRY BUTTS!! This lady is TOUGH as NAILS and she's going to SLAM the CIA big time. I don't blame her, I wouldn't take the CIA BS either. During said briefings members of congress were NOT allowed to take any notes, have any staff members, etc. Funny that huh? WHY is that? That's because the CIA is operating under SHADY-CHENEY'S AUTHORITY. Cheneys ran a Shady deal with this whole TORTURE/GITMO from day one.

The CIA messed up when they hired outside help to design their interrogations process. The CIA has been nothing but fumbling around in the dark regarding their role and involvement of TORTURE at GITMO and Dick Cheney is trying to deflect the floodlights on him in the hopes Americans are TOO STUPID TO KNOW BETTER!!

Speaker Pelosi, where does the buck stop? You're obviously engaging in selective amnesia, reminiscent of the backtracking you and your colleagues engaged in after authorising President Bush's Iraq war.

Terrorists will stop at nothing, so why should we? Without the waterboarding, Wave 2 of the attacks would have likely occurred. Thank goodness our leaders had the guts to do what was necessary to protect America. All these bleeding-heart liberals would be singing a different tune if they'd ever been the victim of terrorism.

I am not sure what she could HAVE done while the crooks and gangsters were in office. They had a strong hold on people. Example....anyone who has lived in an abusive household..........knows....the rules are different.... the entire structure they established was based on fear and retribution. Look how much housecleaning Obama has had to do in order to clean out the structure. It is like going into a crooked town......the whole group has to go.....like the poor men and women privates who were charged with abuse against the prisoners ......they were forced to participate under the parameters set up by their superiors and their own president......Do you really expect Nancy to have any real power when those crooks were in office.

Whatever. It's fairly moot. She couldnt' do anything about it even if she was told that they were actually doing it, because (a) she had no power to stop it and (b) bringing it to Congress while Bushtard and Cheneybot were in office and Congress was cont4rolled by GOPers would have beena surefire way to end up prosecuted for breaching national security.

Can't have it both ways guys: you can't claim releasing the torture memos made us less safe and then lay blame on Pelosi for not speaking out about it. Of course, that's the GOP for ya: do as I say, not as I do, I want to have my cake and eat it too.

Poor Ms P....the boys have their weapons out...time to put on the nails.
Aside from that, it's more than likely you were told..but we know how politics work...it is rush in a conversation so they can say they told you so..and it went by you so fast you had no idea what they said.
Politics the same.

she no doubt has a vague memory of the shianigins that took place in Baltimore under her families watch too.

So, what she is saying is that despite the meetings where the technique was discussed, she didnt think they would use it? Thats like sitting through months of planning meetings for a business merger, and claiming that you didnt think the merger was actually going to happen. THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE MEETINGS!!!!This woman (the debate is stll out on that one) is CRAZY and DANGEROUS!

"The CIA-prepared memo, provided to CNN by Republican sources,"

What does this have to do with the fact that Pelosi LIED? Typical left wing CNN bias.

Don't believe nothing those lying Republicans are saying. Pelosi says they never told her it was torture and I believe her, b/c the Bush Admin. lied to the whole country about WMDs to go invade Iraq to take over Saddams oil. I'm pretty sure when she and others were in that meeting, they were lied to about torture. So now the Republicans are trying to say she knew so if the Democratics try to bring charges up on Bush and Chaney they can say, where's the charges on Pelosi. It's called SCARE TACTICS. Don't let them hoodwink you DEMs, bring charges on those CRIMINALS, BUSH, Chaney, Rove, Rumsfield, Rice, and all those others who had apart in those WAR CRIMES.

She should be brought up on war crimes.

time to put granny in the home.

The investigation of those responsible must proceed. And Nancy Pelosi must be included in the investigation. If she's innocent then she will be exonerated. Of course, with 40 briefings to congress and Pelosi having been the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee you would have to conclude that she is grossly incompetent if she didn't know anything about the waterboarding. But I suspect she probably knew all about it. Let the investigation proceed please.

Hell, she doesn't know where she was last week!!!!!!!!

If obama wants to prosecute someone on torture, add PELOSI to the list.....looks like liberals accidentally fried one of their own. Hahahaha

The hypocrit is busted, at last.

Who are you going to believe – the CIA? the other members of Congress in the room with her at the time? How does this woman keep getting re-elected?

Just call her a liar
Just like Dodd is a liar
Why can't reporters just ask didn't you LIE

I'd like to quote my 4 year old for Ms Nancy...
"Liar Liar, Pants on Fire!"

Nancy knew. It isn't a crime and her voters will blindly re-elect her anyway. Come on Nan, admit it. You knew. Did you honestly think the CIA doesn't keep records of briefings? The CIA? I thought you had to be smart to be in the Senate..

It's okay that we torture terrorists. They sign up for their terrorist role hoping to die in battle. We have no moral obligation to be civil to people who have every intention of destroying us physically and emotionally.

Pelosi is lying about this, but then again, what's new? She subscribes to the philosophy of moral relativsm which basically means that whatever you do is just fine and if someone doesn't like it, they can cry about it.

WOW another politician trying to protect thier own hide by lying. All of this false outrage by democrats about so many things they actually knew about and/or endorsed is just more of the same deceit. Oh well – it is what we have come to expect from the politicians America keeps voting in – no consequences means they think it is okay to continue the lies and deceit. Vote them ALL out now and maybe, just maybe, we'll see some honesty and integrity come back to politics where the American people are the ones politicians try to protect as opposed to themselves and thier positions.

I am a liberal who voted for Obama. I would love to see another Speaker of the House. I do not trust Pelosi's judgment or her word.

Where's the outrage?

SF Libs, any comment on this?

She is a thorn in the side of the democratic party. California, please oust her. She has a Judge Judy vibe that totally rubs me the wrong way.

Does she seriously expect anyone to believe she didn't know or anyone on the panel didn't know. . .maybe not specific details but there was something going on . . come on. How stupid does she think the American Public is. . .and for the public how can you condem our government for doing what they need to do to protect us. They are simply using the same techniques we use to train our military.

Umm yeah sure Nancy.
Next she'll say, water boarding, wait I thought that was like wake boarding, they were taking these guys out on the lake for recreation.

well of course they told her about waterboarding...................she is about as phony as all that botox in her face

We need witnesses. Who else was there? Who can testify as to what was said during the course of these meetings? Was somebody taking minutes? Eric Hold should be bringing charges against the Bush Admin for their various crimes

Ahh, the old Bill Clinton defense. And she learned he lessons well.

Hummm, how is it possible for her to deny something that she singed off on. BTW waterborading not torture, for chrimny sakes it doesn't even hurt.

Who voted for this idiot? You should have your voting rights revoked. She needs to be perp walked for so many abuses that go beyond her actual lies. She is a quinessential incompetent politician...if her lips are moving she is lying. Don't just impeach her, send her to jail.

If she knew, she should shut up about the witch hunt of Bush administration. If she didn't know, then WHY NOT? Wouldn't that be considered negligent in her duties. She is wrong any way you look at it and needs to be brought up on ethics charges and breaking the law.

I normally wouldn't defend Nancy Pelosi further than I can spit, but this is just absurd.

Bush's political hacks in the CIA wrote down their "recollections" that are now being used to implicate Pelosi.

If that isn't the fox guarding the hen-house, I don't know what is.

Pelosi is a liar.

Either way Pelosi is either lying or incompetent ? Maybe she was sleeping during the meeting..or maybe she needs to get a physical? She might be displaying the first signs of Alzheimer's ?

It is clear..... Nancy Pelosi is a LIAR.

Well let's waterboard Pelosi and get the truth out of her. Looks like she's trying to save her political hide now, it would be the Democrats gain to get rid of her.

OMG–I don't care if she knew about waterboarding or not. The buck stopped with President Bush! No one was going to stop the Bush/Cheney agenda.

It is a bold faced lie. She knew.

Hey, let's have that investigation now why don't we? You wonder why this liar of a woman took impeachment off the table? She KNEW. I have no idea why the Democrats pushed this so far knowing that they were involved as deep as anyone in the Bush Administration, AND they were updated and they had no objections, I guess they DO have selective memory when it comes to the politics of war, we heard the same thing about Iraq as well.

UGH! Someone wish away Pelosi!! And take Harry with you!!