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I'm not sure why CNN is complicit in the smoke & mirror campaign by the torture apologists. The notion that hypocrisy is now being implemented (the knowledge of, and the now criminal characterization) by the house speaker is laughable. When speaker Knute led the way for impeachment, while practicing adultery, makes one think, how credible could this opinion be. Speaker Knute, please let us be amused with your policy positions, and leave the task of censure to elected officials that can make it happen. Oh yeah CNN, could you cover more of the participants who were actually in the loop of this epic occurrence? Its great to look back on what was once proclaimed, and where the truth actually is. Partisans on the periphery can only deflect, or cloud the matter at hand. Let the Inquirer cover the off key noise.

I can't understand why Gingrich, or anybody else, republican or democrat, is ought to be coming down on Pelosi. It's not like she ordered it. It's not like Bush or Cheney would have scrapped the idea if she said she didn't approve it.

What needs to be done is make sure torture doesn't happen again.

What also needs to be done is make sure that moving forward we adopt policies that we are going to stand behind. Here is what I mean: back in the day, the US lead the creation of the League of Nations, then the UN. Sounded like a good idea back then because it favored the US. Now all you hear is people saying get out of the UN, because, well, it's not working out anymore.

Same with torture. We signed up for the Geneva Convention, because it was convenient back then. But now, not so much.

It's wartime. The torture argument is understandable. But support for the Iraq was was garnered by saying that we would bring democracy to the middle east. What can you say about a democracy that does one thing when it is convenient, and another when it is not?

Who is Gingrich? The man that promised America that he was going to bring back morality to Washington,while married and sexing up his secretary. In his new position as the person to tell all Americans that all democrats are bad and all Republicans are good,Newt decided to personally further the lie about Pelosi's air travel so many times,I lost count of how many times he has made that statement.
The lie; Speaker Pelosi is the only Speaker to have a designated plane furnished by our military.
The truth; After 9/11 as ordered by the house sergeant at arms,ordered that the speaker of the house,at the time Dennis Hastert to have a designated aircraft for any travel.No democrats minded because the speaker is second in line if something happened to the President. Speaker Pelosi was told secure travel required an aircraft that had a longer range and ability to stay aloft longer. This should have stayed on the EIB and not picked up by Gingrich.
Has one positive thing ever been said about Democrats on fox?
Gingrich is now a fox pundit,he is no longer credible.
Lets open Bob Grahams personal "note" book,which BTW the CIA has agreed is correct.
This is a smear job,the Democrats will come out well above the Republicans on this,in short,this is a crap storm and you better duck!

So Pelosi says that the CIA misled her a.k.a. lied to her, then she back tracks and says she respects the CIA and it was the Bush administration that lied to her, and let's just forget about the past anyway because she is focussing on the future.

Her story certianly doesn't seem sound.

Should she step down as Speaker? I don't think so, but it would be nice if there was at least one politician that didn't suffer from amnesia.

Gingrich is the pit bull for the GOP. Now pray tell me, how in the world this making Pelosi not fit to be Speaker of the House? The President and Vice President AUTHORIZED the Waterboarding. Condalese Rich was head of the National Security Council to Bush, and NONE of them are not even being mentioned now. Only the one that supposed to have been told about it is being "Sweated". Bring the ones that Authorized this to the forefront where they belong. Now is the time for the DEMs to push for Bush, Channey, Rice and Rumfield to be held for WAR CRIMES. Change the playing field.

I think she should be disbarred if she lied. No politician is above the law, whichever party affiliation they're in. The same goes with all the officals who approved torture from the past Bush administration.

and we should give credence to newt why...???

this "man" began the vitrol with his scorched earth policies..back in the "90's..why would we listen or take any thing he says..?

go crawl back under your rock newt..

and we should give credence to newt why...???

this "man" began the vitrol with his scorched earth policies..back in the "90's..why would we listen or take any thing he says..?/

go crwl back under your rock newt..

Ok, number 1: why does CNN give so much publicity to discredited, right-wing extremists like Gingrich? (is it showing Fox envy? how low can they go?); number 2: does Newt not realize that the GOP is the vast minority, and there is no chance of censure?; number 3: even if Pelosi knew about the waterboarding (and I have no idea whether she did or not, but I tend to doub it), the buck stops with Bush and Cheney–they are the ones who need censure, if not balls and chains (I think the public would go for it, even as we try to fix the economy, fight two wars, etc.); number 4: back to #1: CNN, please stop pretending that people like Newt Gingrich are relevant! Why not interview, say, Bo Derek, Joe the Plumber or Ms. California about these issues instead? They have more credibility.

I agree with Newt. Bush, Cheney and Pelosi should all be in jail!

Wait a second..... Newt is not saying anything about Bush and Cheney? Mmm, interesting. It almost feels like Newt's attack is political in nature.

Bill Clinton the pot smoker and sleeps with the interns, their is no shame. Barack Obama smokes crack, lies his way through his campaign to get elected into the presidency. Nancy Pelosi just a plain as day liar. This is what we get from the democratic leadership, a government that has no morals that is running this country into decadence.

Nuke Gingrouch will spare no opportunity to bloviate his party into oblivion.

Keep it up, Nuke! With you running your mouth off there'll be no chance of Rethuglicans gaining any traction!

Please. Republicans think they have found a new target in Pelosi since all their Obama attacks flopped like the so-called Fox orchestrated Tea Parties. This is a phony argument. The CIA most likely DID lie to her, since their pattern of behavior during the Bush administration was more in line with trying to prove political points instead of actually collecting objective intelligence. Newt Gingrich is just keeping his wrinkled mug in the public eye by making such outlandish, but offensive allegations, the media gives him a forum and makes his ridiculous ideas news.

CNN why are you not questioning the truthfulness of the CIA's acoount of the meeting?
Have you not learn from the past, that the CIA lies.
Where's the CIA's proof?
Pelosi and others in the CIA briefing are not allowed to take notes, and as you wll know any disclosure is illegal.

Panetta needs to get a grip! Of course he would say that it is not the practice to mislead or misrepresent. That's his job which isn't to say that what he says is truth. It's all politics and simply that. Move on news cycle. Enough is enough already!

Nancy Pelosi is an embarrassment to the Obama administration and to America. I am a HUGE fan of President Obama, but Nancy Pelosi is one of the worst political figures in recent memory.

Someone has to do something to make this witch go away... far far away.

I am quite sure President Obama is cringing over Pelosi's antics and despicable behavior.

she's a democrat – all they know how to do is lie, point fingers at republicans and blame bush – of course she will stay – she is only acting like the leader of her party! and i might add she is doing a hell of a job!!

Listen CNN,
I posted comment before, you deleted. Fine.
Now, here is the same comment.
If Bush, Dick, Rumsfeld and Co lied to USA, they should go to jail!
Right, Newt?
And, please, Newt: give-up! You wont be President ever, you are "White, old, fat idiot leaving first wife because she was sick"!
You want more?

It is beyond me how this women ever became the Democratic majority leader! Completely insane!

Gingich and his band of brother GOP members are rediculous to even suggest that Pelosi could be ousted. As much as the GOP has lied and misled us there is no wonder that he believes that she should be out. Gingrich needs to put a sock in it! This country has to many important things to fix and we don't need to be distracted with mess like this. The news media needs to get off of this cycle of non news. Refocus guys. Don't be so irresponsible. Real Americans are concerned about their day to day living conditions, employment and having enough to feed their families. These are the real issues that Americans care about. They are basic and real so stop with the nonsense!

She's stupid. Plain and simple,

So let me get this straight. Pelosi should be immediately ousted for lying about what she knew when about waterboarding, but we shouldn't spend even one minute prosecuting the people who orchestrated it in the first place? Typical Republican hypocrisy. They stand for small government, unless they want to grow it; privacy, unless they want to wiretap you or take away your right to choose; fiscal conservatism unless they're racking up debt in never-ending wars.

Remind me again just what Newt is doing now, and why he thinks he is relevant?
I care about what Newt has to say about as much as I care about what Cheney has say-NOT AT ALL!

Gingrich is a misogynist. Ask his ex-wives. He cannot stand a woman as speaker of house.

Before the House even considers opening a formal investigation, the people of the U.S. need to understand what is to be gained by doing so and does the end justify the means.

The Republicans did not want to investigate why the President and on down the line lied about the Iraq war. Now they are the " Truth Squad". Why would Nancy Pelosi be any different than the rest of the country. As an American, most of us felt mis- lead by intelligence of any kind coming from the Bush White House . Why should Pelosi feel differently. You can not go after Pelosi without looking into the Bush environment at that time. So stop looking at one side at this coin and the truth will set the Republican Party free....If they could only see it.

Hey Newt. Fade back into obscurity you twice-divorced "champion of family values". Apparently he didn't get to completely scratch that witch-hunt itch in the 1990's. Now, after he has 'defamed' himself and has been thrown out of office – he is trying to climb back into relevance? Why is he even getting this press attention? He is as irrelevant as the "Contract with America" that he staked his character on in the 90's. Seriously, CNN, stop giving this guy a stage. If you want to give a voice to the right-wing, pick someone that still has a role/future in the party – Pawlenty, Jindal, Crist. Giving a pulpit to has-been's like Cheney and Gingrich is only giving them a forum to trash America and spread hate because they don't have any stake in the game anymore and they have nothing to lose. You may think that gives them no reason to lie or hold anything back, but it really means that they can say whatever they want without any accountability. These people are often the blunt instruments that lead the attacks. Even Dems do this – see James Carville and Paul Begala. It rarely furthers the debate, so let's knock it off.

Ah, the Newt, a fat, unemployed white guy, is now threatening to remove Pelosi from her speakership. This is rich.

Go away, Newtster. Don't you have a cancer-ridden wife to divorce on her deathbed? Scum.

"The House ethics committee recommended last night that House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) face an unprecedented reprimand from his colleagues and pay $300,000 in additional sanctions after concluding that his use of tax-deductible money for political purposes and inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented 'intentional or . . . reckless' disregard of House rules." – Washington Post, Jan. 18, 1997

Oh, and he also (1) divorced his wife while she was getting cancer treatments, (2) married his 2nd wife six months later, and (3) cheated on HER with his future 3rd wife... while the Clinton impeachment was underway.

So we should listen to him, uh, why?

Gengrich is a GOP machine focused on tearing Democrats down instead of giving Republicans any ounce of integrity.

First off, fake Gengrich, you're so upset at Pelosi, but you have no complaint against Bush for the VERY SAME THING. You have made excuses for him, and do not go back seeking some kind of penalty against him or Cheney for LYING to us!

But here's the deal with Gengrich, you're party, your party philosophy which is, truly, the philosophy of negation-by-fear of anything democratic is how you operate. Lets be real, Gengrich supports the 2nd amendment but called for suspension of the FIRST amendment! The right of free speech!

So no, Gengrich, you want Pelosi to join you as a speaker who was censured and demoted due to scandal.

Once more, your hypocritical lying double-standard only works when people have long term memory loss.

Why is Newt Gingrich's opinion relevant anymore given his own history with Cogress and the Ethics Comittee? Not to mention his own personal conduct while trying to impeach Clinton for his! It's like the pot calling the kettle black! The facts should come out before he declares Pelosi guilty of lying and determines her sentence. He and Cheney need to move on, go away and shut up...

Why is Newt Gingrich given the same stature as if he were an elected official of any sort?

He is a disgraced former House Speaker who cheated on his wife while trying to impeach Clinton for doing the same.

He has no authority concerning Speaker Pelosi, and is currently nothing more than another talking head, like Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh.

This tabloid political journalism is all that gives him the megaphone he so desparately desires. The more outrageous the comment, the bigger the headline.

Let's get back to the problems this country is facing now, and move on from the soap opera.

little too much Botox, Nan?

Why is Newt Gingrich commenting at all? Do you notice the Republicans always attack women? Remember Hillary Clinton's wrinkles? They can't stand having a woman in charge & rail against her at every turn. Why did Martha Stewart end up in jail and none of the men? Why did the woman journalist end up in jail & not the male journalist's? Why did the woman soldier in the Abu Graib mess end up in jail & not her male counterparts and the woman General was censured and blamed and not the men? The Republicans are a bunch of misogenists.

Newt...back to the old path, since he has no content, no solutions...ATTACK! This old washed up tactic is just too much.

Here's a typical example of the political flip flop. Now that Pelosi and other past administration officials are in the hotseat, of course she is going to deny any knowledge of enhanced interrogation techniques.
She should definitely be investigated and ousted if she is lied.

Pelosi lies just about every time she opens her mouth. Can anyone tell me exactly how she managed to get the speaker job? In my opinion Pelosi is an idiot, and I hope she gets the boot. Now if she could only take Barney and Diane with her.

Really? This is from the same person who was investigated by the House ethics committee and reprimanded by the full House in 1997 for violating federal tax law and lying to the ethics committee in an effort to force the committee to dismiss the complaint against him?

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

I'm confused. How is it that a former Speaker of the House who was forced by his own party to resign as Speaker and currently does not hold office is prescribing how Speaker Pelosi should be treated by Congress? It is fine for Mr. Gingrich to speak his mind as a private citizen, but where is the elected Republican leadership on this issue? Mr. Gingrich should tread carefully in his critique lest someone revive his sordid record of accomplishments.

Lord – what then should we do to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld for not only lying to Congress, the UN, and the American People on many, many issues – but who also murdered innocent Iraqi citizens and 5000+ American soldiers in a fraudulent war designed for their own profit, who ordered and still stand by the use of illegal torture, who subverted the Constitution by misusing Executive Power for criminal acts against the nation?

Pelosi has done NOTHING but become the latest Republican scapegoat to divert our attention from the crimes the Republican Party authorized and want to hide from full disclosure.

The focus should be on the REAL criminals – Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Let their trials begin!

Let's see what the truth really is and who is guilty of what. This whole Pelosi nonsense will backfire on the unethical and previously censured Gingrich – his hypocrisy is beyond ridiculous and arrogance disgusting.

I have no problem with that, as long as Bush, Cheney and cie are in jail for killing thousands of Americans in unnecessary wars and in failing to prevent 09/11 even with all the warnings.

For those commenters that repeatedly argue that the real issue is that the administration committed these horrible acts - how blind can you possibly be? Most of "the administration" were people that were at most simply "aware" that these acts were going on. Now, it is clear that Pelosi was also "aware" that these acts were committed.

You can't have your liberal cake and eat it too. It seems you would like to go after everyone involved with these heinous torture acts.... as long as they vote red in elections. Despicable.

My honest opinion.... if she knew about it and didn't complain or reveal the top secret information, bravo to her. First thing she's ever done that I agree with.

So why not go after Bush and Cheney and the lot???? They lied as well and they gave the go ahead for all of this, not her.
Republican nonsense.

Gosh, Newt, I don't think you are in the House any more. And why? Because you lied. You were lying about an affair even as you were doing your worst to get Clinton out of office.

And what right do you have to criticize anyone? Are you angling at a run for President? Aren't you happy spouting your opinions, not facts, over at Faux Noise? Maybe you should go off somewhere and write a book. I'm sure the same conservatives who want to read about Palin are dying to read about your exploits as well. Just be sure to include the parts about cheating on your spouses.

Now listen, i'm a democrat. I support the president but Pelosi is way out there. Now either she's lying or the CIA is lying – I don't care it's one of the other – we need to know. I personally believe that she's wrong and the truth has to come out – i'm sick and tired of politicians lying to us – enought of this! I've had it – I don't care if you are a rep or dem – its not ok to lie and its not ok to say that the CIA is when they are not – and its not ok to change your story when you get caught – man up to it and admit it. I've had it.

Well, Newt should know about lying and cheating.

He lied about his affair with a congressional aide, and I guess he lied when he made those wedding vows the first time.
He abused tax-exempt status to pay for political attacks.
Newt lied when he ran a commercial in 2007 claiming that the 9/11 attackers were in the country illegally. Turns out that we knew back in 2001 that the Saudi terrorists had arrived legally using student and tourist visas.
I'm willing to assume he was just plain wrong when he said that 800 babies were tossed in dumpsters in Washington, DC each year. (4 is a more accurate count)
Oh, and he lied when he tweeted March 2 that there hasn't been an oil spill since 1969 in Santa Barbara. Turns out that there were a couple in just the past few months.

Why do we keep giving this guy internet time?

Gingrich... look who is talking! You do not exactly have the best morals ...

How about an "absolute obligation" to investigate the people who set up the torture programs that were carried out in our name?

What an absolute non-story.

The Republicans believe in using the oversight power but only on Democrats. Typical Republicans. Why does it really matter what Pelosi knew or not, does she truly have the power to stop something the President wants to do. I mean if the President wants to torture which is against the law all the Speaker could really do is say something but has no real power to actually stop it, so what does it really matter if she knew something or not. The Republicans are just trying to shift the blame to someone else, which I hope doesn't work because they cannot get away with that stupid technique again.

And we're actually listening to Newt Gingrich? The last time this man went on a similar power trip, he was trying to impeach a president for marital infidelity while doing the exact same thing!
Gingrich is shameless and the press should be ashamed for even listening to him, or allowing him to make his ridiculous assertions and claims unfiltered and unchallenged.

I think we do need a "truth commision" If she is telling the truth and the CIA is lying than someone has commited a crime and it must be investigated.

I think the Pelosi and anyone else breifed need to be questioned under oath as to what they knew and when.

BTW I have no problem with waterboarding terrorists. I would hope we would use plyers and a blow torch if it meant saving my children...does anyone HONESTLY disagree with me?

Mr Gingrich's comment of a possible censure of the current Speaker of the House of Reps, 111th Congess, Nancy Pelosi,. is speculation. Mr Gingrich formerly speaker of the House years ago, no longer is a Rep. Speaker Pelosi may be censured & I may find 10 $100.00 bills under my pillow when I get up on Sunday morning.

Pelosi lied! So what? As much as I abhor lying by public officials, I am more concerned about the lies that were fabricated and concocted to justify the invasion of Iraq. That some people manufactured evidence to justify a useless war that resulted in the death of thousands of young Americans; whose only crime was that they loved their country so much and joined the armed forces to defend it and believed their so call leaders only to die for lies, is unconscionable. The events that led to the invasion of Iraq needs to be investigated. The books of this war should be opened as soon as the troops withdraw. Did the government cook evidence to justify a war that resulted in the death of our sons and daughters when then knew very well that there was no basis for this war? This is a much more serious crime than Pelosi, who may be at the early stages of alzheimers.

Gingrich is a stupid political opportunist. He is a member of a gang that believes that "government is too big", yet they want to part of it and lead. Government would be much smaller if these fools who think in this manner never aspired for public office, or that some of them who are currently in "service", resigned. I am just tired of hearing them make noise like gangsters. "Government is the problem" yet I want to be part of it! I have never seen a more idiotic bunch.

Pelosi, is bad news for the Democratic Party. Get rid of her now before she wrecks everything! She is only there for herself and her agenda.

Hey Newt. Shut up, only the Sunday talk shows care what you think.

THIS IS REALLY FUNNY. This is from the man that is doing all the spending and will continue spend with his heath plan and cap and trade. ONE BIG JOKE!

The long-term deficit and debt that we have accumulated is unsustainable. We can't keep on just borrowing from China or borrowing from other countries," Obama told a town hall meeting event in New Mexico.

"We have to pay interest on that debt and that means that we're mortgaging our children's future with more and more debt," he said.

Obama fired his democrat teleprompter and now has a Conseravative Teleprompter.

This is more right-wingnut propaganda from people who lied to justify a war of choice against a manufactured enemy who had no link to the people who attacked us, but were available and convenient. Gingrich lied to his former wife, abandoned her because it was convenient, now claims some higher morality to attack elected officials in positions he no longer can claim. This is the idiocy of pretenders to the oligarchic throne. Unfortunately the uneducated believe this type of nonsense and we will suffer the consequences.

And this coming from one of the most unethical members of Congress ever? One who was censured himself and forced out of Washington????? Is Gingrich delusional?

Lord – what then should we do to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld for not only lying to Congress, the UN, and the American People on many, many issues – but who also murdered innocent Iraqi citizens and 5000+ American soldiers in a fraudulent war designed for their own profit, who ordered and still stand by the use of illegal torture, who subverted the Constitution by misusing Executive Power for criminal acts against the nation?

Pelosi has done NOTHING but become the latest Republican scapegoat to divert our attention from the crimes the Republican Party authorized and stood by and supported and want to hide from.

The focus should be on the REAL criminals – Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

The hypocrisy and list of lies by the Republican Party is astounding and their arrogance disgusting. This is beyond ridiculous!!

Ummm, okay Newt. While we are at it. Let's do that little "Truth Commission" thang. We know laws were broken so let's prosecute those who broke them.

What a royal jerk this guy is. Does he really think he can win anything besides being tied with the " biggest boob in the GOP", that racist, druggie, fat guy on the radio.

I believe it's a matter of known fact that GWB and Cheney LIED this nation into war and nobody made THEM quit their offices!!!!

And if she did not lie, then what? Do you and your fellow Republicans humbly apologize to her?
And what happens to those CIA agents who lied to her and Congress?
And how do you prove who is correct, as there are no transcripts of what was said at those meetings.
And who's to say that they did not doctor those notes.
Witnessed by the fact theyt the CIA destroyed videos of torture interrogations.
So Newt go back to writting your fiction novels.

CNN, and the rest of the "news" should be ignoring this. Newt is calling for censure? It's the ultimate finger pointing, trying to turn the debate from "who did this" to "look, the dems are as bad as we are!!?!?!"

He's not even an elected official! He's a freakin FOX NEWS commentator!

Newt should know the rules well. While he was publicly decrying a sitting president for lying about an affair, he was having one himself. Some morals. And that little ditty lost him five seats and an all time low approval rating of 28%.

If he seriously thinks this is going to win him a bid at the top job, he is, once again, drinking his own kool-aid.

Newt that's a very stupid thing to say. Who cares whether she knew or not. President Bush should be the one being investigating for allowing torture of such magnitude. No use in trying to use Nancy Pelosi as a scapegoat. Did she authorize the use of torture?

GREAT week for Nancy.........more to come!

I thought lying was a requirement to be in congress?

Newt,

Thanks for wasting our tax dollars going after Bill Clinton!
We are so lucky that you didn't lie about your affair!

Have your 3rd wife learned from your previous 2 wives and 'newt'ered you yet?

Congrats - you (along with Cheney; the Boston child abusing priests and the Vatican folks that protected them for decades; Larry Craig; Rev. Alberto Cutie; Ted Haggard; etc.) epitomize the conservative / religious GOP values!

Gingrich never fails to amaze me with his hypocrisy. Does he think people forgot when he lied about his affair when he was the speaker and he also voted to impeach President Clinton. He should realize that his actions would not be forgotten even in 2025.

The pot is calling the kettle black! Forced to resign over his own ethical lapses, the lizard, I'm sorry "the Newt" says Pelosi may be censured. On second thought, he ought to know. Of course, I can't recall the last time the Central Incompetence Agency actually got something right. See: Pigs, Bay of or maybe Soviet Union, collapse of. Disgusting.

I think the only reason that Newt and the rest of the Republicans are howling so loud about this is to try to distract the people of this country from the fact that the Bush administration willingly violated both the constitution and all the international treaties on torture that the U.S. has ever signed. It is completely hypocritical for a man who presided
over the Whitwater circus to say that this is the worst politcal act he has ever seen. I think that there should be a COMPLETE investigation
of everything to do with the acts of torture, not just what Pelosi did or did not know, but an investigation and prosecution of former Bush officals.

If Pelosi is censured for this then GW, Cheney and Rumsfeld should be horsewhipped.
Gingrich should get a life.

....as they say, Newt....takes one to know one.

I agree, IF she lied she must go, but coming from a dishonored former speaker, it looses some credibility.......

Newt Gingrich is nothing better than a braying jackel tearing at the flesh of a House Speaker – Pelosi – who puts his ghastly performance in that position to shame. Absolute jealousy.

Oh please, wasn't it Bob Graham who said on Friday that the CIA originally informed him that he received 4 briefings from the CIA but because the man keeps meticulous notes, he was able to prove that the CIA was WRONG on three of them? They are far from above mistakes. Please don't feed us this bull, MR. Gingrich. You are lucky you got through without being censured yourself...

leave nancy your a mill stone around the country neck

Gingrich is a pig. Just because he was forced out in disgrace is no reason for him to bring down everyone else that way.

Why does he even get air time these days?

He would be a horrid presidential candidate and is a horrid human being.

So what if Pelosi knew she still isn't as guilty as Cheney! She's one woman against all those nasty evil republican so called men!

Newt, get over yourself. Bob Graham said the CIA claimed to have briefed him in meetings that his records revealed he had not even attended. The CIA conceded their dates were wrong and Graham had not necessarily received the information that they claimed.

So, here's the problem that Newt and his buddies have. The CIA has no credibility on this and this entire "Media Circus" has no merit. There is no evidence of what information the CIA provided and this is a colossal waste of time.

We recently learned that Bush, Cheney, et. al. actually authorized torture even prior to the Iraq War with the sole purpose of finding some shred of evidence to support their obsession to invade Iraq.

So, why is this she said/they said nonsense even an issue? Where is the outrage of over the lies and torture used to manipulate public opinion to justify a war that diverted our resources from the criminals who actually attacked us on 9/11!!!!!

The Bush Administration outed a covert CIA agent for political retribution. Where is the outrage? These people need to be brought to justice for their abuse of power and the damage done to our country by their deception and self-serving war.

Why is Gingrich all of a sudden important? Didn't his last stint in D.C. end in ethical embarassment and shame? And now he is the conscience of the Republican Party?

Could this be a political maneuver to employ Republicans to support Congressional investigation? Or is Pelosi really as inept as these stories paint her? Could Obama be setting her up? Sending her to the dogs, as it were? Or maybe it's just a diversion meant to draw attention away from the fact Obama is really George Bush in disguise. Think about it. Cheney all over the place, but where's GW? Nobody's SEEN him for quite some time. Hey. if Joan Rivers can find a surgeon to make her look like Michael Jackson.....

I usually vote Democrat, and I cannot stand Nancy Pelosi. She represents all the things that people hate about "liberals." And now she is blaming the CIA for not briefing her adequately. Why, when she had the chance, did she not ask for more information? I find it hard to believe that any description of waterboarding would not alert the attentive listener to the fact that it is torture. She needs to take responsibility and step down. We need someone who is more representative of the Democratic party in her position as speaker of the house.

Give it up Gingrich – this is like the hyena crying wolf for heaven's sake!
what a sore loser!

I am a loyal Democrat, but I feel there is no excuse for what Pelosi has done. Not only has she carelessly defamed our intelligence community, but at this point, she is becoming little more than a distraction for our party. She needs to go.

He's such a has been, and he thinks everyone appreciates what he says as much as he does.

hmmm. I think, if I had to choose who to believe, I would NOT pick the guys who were illegally torturing, at the orders of an administration who lied to go to war...
...and the LAST person I want to hear these accusations about Pelosi from is Newt Gingrich, who is so desperately trying to become Mr. Big by grandstanding weekly. If CNN so easily and willingly follows this trail, which leads conveniently away from the central issue of whether we are a nation who tortures, and like a banana republic, makes excuses for doing so whenever it suits, then CNN is not acting in the best interest of truth, of news, and of this country being the best it can be.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
they're gonna censure Pelosi for not commenting or complaining on something that Bush/Cheney said they weren't doing and if they weren't doing it it wasn't illegal anyway?
what universe do these people inhabit? I wonder if the strait jackets chafe their skin when and if they are allowed to move??? Hey, Newt! How IS Nurse Ratchett these days, anyway?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Are we going to have the full release of the transcript? – else, it's just he says and she says stuff. Anyway, CIA don't keep good records anyway, so it's a mute point.

Can we oust Pelosi, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Harry Reid, and just shut Newt up? All he is doing is campaigning. I for one would not vote for the man for a dogcatcher's position. Talk about immoral! Strange that you haven't heard much about that....I guess since he's asked for forgiveness! How many times do you forgive a morally corrupt individual!

The very much less than honorable Mr. Gingrich does not seem to be able to learn from his mistakes. Even simple lessons seem to be beyond his capabilities. PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES, for instance.

Gingrich needs to accept the fact that he is an irrelivant brainless bag of hot air...and the CIA is well known to have been involved in numerous...covert lets say...operations....these people have had their chance to run the country, the failed miserably, and the world has moved on

Someone tell me why Newt is relevant anymore. Didn't he screw up his chance?

Here's a deal, Newt. Why don't you call for an investigation of EVERYONE involved in torture. Especially "Mission accomplished" Bush, and "Shoot 'em in the face" Cheney.

Censure that.

Mr. Gingrich..........................I do think you need to cool your jets for a bit. George Bush, your fellow lying Republican, and Dick Cheney, your girlfriend, lied for eight years to the American people. If you want to slander and run your mouth, why not censure your friends before commenting on this dumb, insignificant situation.
You Republicans do nothing but spew hatred, bias and racism continuously and all you want to do is destroy any common union of peoples of our country.
Grow up and smell the roses Mr. Gingrich......You are the PAST and not the FUTURE. We are in the 21st Century and not living in the 60's like all of you Republicans do. Grow up and quit whinning!

All the libs can spin this until they turn blue . But the bottom line is . The Speaker of the House lied to the country to cover her backside . She needs to be thrown out . She has dishonored herself and her party and the House. Her blind obsession with bashing the Bush administration will cost her her job .

I dont think she is being HONEST with herself or the American people.She should be OUSTED out of her position.She is dragging the country down and has been since she got that position its time for her to go.

According to God's word, honesty means telling the whole troth, reguardless how much it costs. It means revealing the whole truth, even when it isn't necessary. There are no small lies-only lies. The speaker will have to make a decision to be honest with the American people.

Why is Chicken Noodle News siding with a disgraced philandering like Gingrich? Didn't this dishonorable cretin turn up at his recovering wife's bedside with divorce papers? And wasn't she recovering from cancer surgery? Time for this sickening piece of offal to exit the political scene, and time enough for Chicken Noodle News to be more critical of their Repug source,

Yes, let us fully investigate the torture issue all the way up the ladder to
the POLICY MAKERS and their FACILITATORS in the Office of Legal
Counsel....finally, Cheney , Bush and the rest of the cabal will be
implicated, evidence established and legal action taken against them.

Wait so the GOP is attacking the speaker of the house?...I think they are about to open pandora's box and the former Pres and VP will have to answer for there crimes in a war tribunal...because this is bigger than the speaker of the house... the GOP's attack, divide and warp the truth tactic will not work in 2009...I don't see how they didn't learn this in the last election...Real Americans are to smart for this!!!

The Grinch needs to go back to Dr Seuss land! Another GOP big talker with no credibility.

Coming from a guy who yelled from the bottom of his lung to impeach President Clinton while having an affair with another woman. Only in America would Newt stills be relevant.

Dick Gringrich would know something about that

Gingrich can not seem to stop trying to tear things apart. Always the negative, always the finger pointing. Pick, pick, pick. It would be so nice to have our reps working in union to help our country. Politics seems to be in everything in DC.

I will agree to a formal investigation as soon as Cheney is investigated. He broke the law openly with waterboarding and is not apologizing for it. He allowed illegal wiretapping....encouraged the war in Iraq (no weapons found). For all this and more, he should be investigated. I think it is funny that now that the republican party is fragmented,,,along comes Gingrich to save the day. Where were his susggestions when the economy was tanking and the republicans were in charge. Where were his ideas about social security....Oh I remember some wanted to invest in the stock market....wow! Imagine if we did? Where were his suggestions on health care. I find it amazing that now he is be beacon for all and especially the republican party. There are many other republicans I would listen to before I would him. He has his own background to deal with and many of us remember it.

Newt Gingrich is no longer a Washington policymaker. He is free to make his opinions known via the media as a private citizen. His influence upon elected policymakers, though, is dependent upon how they may be swayed by an outside voice such as his and others (we won't go into other personalities now). Undoubtedly, he swings a big stick much as Dick Cheney and others of the former administration(s) do. But let's not give them too much air time. They (Republicans) were tossed out on their toochises last year. It seems that the phrase "Buy 'em books and buy 'em books and all they want to do is eat the covers" is apt. It's time the Repub's should now put up or shut up. If their rant is simply "Throw the bums out!" when someone pulls a gaff, then they need to defer to the electoral process when it rolls around again. The last eight years weren't very nice and the next four to eight may not be either. They had their chance. Now let's let the next shift have their shot.

Hey Newt! You are insignificant and so is your party. Why dont you stfu and go away. The GOP gift that keeps giving and giving....Axis of Evil: Newt, Limpball, Steele and Mr. Humaniy from FIX news. Guess you can add Lord Vader to the list too.

So, just curious, Newt, who authorized torture, anyway?

Bush and Cheney are war criminals.

Pelosi is a side show.

We need a full investigation.

If it leads to Pelosi, so be it,

but be ready for what we've done to come out.

Let Dick defend that.

Don't like Pelosi, Like Gingrich even less, and he is no longer filling any office in the land. This controversu seems to have come at a good time for those trying to devert attention from the CIA being involved in torture approved or not. Read what you want into it but I do not believe in chance happenings deverting attention from the past administration and the CIA 6 years after the fact and only the Speaker seems to be receiving attacks.

Oh God, can't old disgraced republicans just fade away? For Gingrich to be admonishing anyone about dishonesty is incredibly ironic.That being said, it really is time for Pelosi to go. I am a lifelong democrat who yearns for the days of Tip o'Neill, the champion of the working class, honest and thoughtful. When O'Neill spoke, you could bank on what was said. Nancy Pelosi on the other hand, is a disgrace. Anytime Pelosi is moving her lips its a pretty good bet that she's lying.

Despite her recent backpedaling, the Speaker was very clear in maintaining that the CIA lied to her. She even repeated that when asked for clarification. If they did not, then she is a liar and there is no misunderstanding. In that case, she's got to go!!

Ah, taking the fall back position. Blame Bush.

What a joke.

The last time Newt Gingrich ran for office....he promised a "Contract with America" (you can google that!)
He did not deliver.
He had a republican congress
He did not deliver.
What? What, indeed, has Newt done for america....and folks...I lived in his district. Thank you. Newt is an interesting internet search, especially combined with family values, one of his own favorite platforms. Mmmm-mmmmm. Exactly.

Why are we listening to a fatuous blowhard who family values didn;t include the marital affair he conducted? I hoinestly don;t know who's more contemptible, Limbaugh or Gingrich?

I am sick and tired of this Gingrich thing.We have some works to do about economy and yet this GOPailure are dragging this war of words on plus their mdetator CNN who love this fight too to boost their rating.Stop this nonesense and let us work together to solve this problems and the two wars the Bush inherited to us.

Another Democratic LIER, Pelosi has been caught and now she is looking for a backdoor to ru out of or she is just like a child and balming someone else. Pelosi is a LIER and it is time for PELOSI NEEDS TO STEP DOWN

Telling a lie in Congress when not under oath is not treason, it's commonplace, no? The question, then, is not whether or not Pelosi lied, but was what she said politically savvy or stupid? Did or did it not hurt the Democrats' political agenda? This, I think, is for the President to decide: is Pelosi now politically useful or harmful? All the he need do is drop a hint, and she either stays or goes.

First and foremost Pelosi only cares to appease her voter base in CA that keeps putting the wicked witch of the west back in DC. Rather than a censure It would serve the nation better if she was impeached and barred from any further federal office. I do not like traitors like Pelosi because they threaten not only national security, but the national cohesion as well.

As a Liberal-Democrat I am loath to listen to someone like Gingrich talk about partisanship.

However, if Pelosi did lie then she needs to be held accountable. Gingrich is a liar and a partisan hack in the worst possible way and if Democrats cannot hold themselves to a higher standard then the ones held by Gingrich then we do not deserve the public trust. We do not have to be as morally bankrupt as Newt is. We must do better.

This is so ridiculous. Is this the same CIA who gave the Bush administration 'bad intelligence'? It is so obvious that there are members in the CIA who are foot soldiers for the former Bush Administration and the conservative neocon cause. Panetta just wants to make sure that the public doesn't lose trust in the whole organization. It is entirely believable that there are 'bad apples' in the agency who wanted to mislead both about Iraq and about torture. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.

hmm, gingrich is not even in government and is pronouncing sentence
as though he was in charge. also his ethics scandal and lying to congress
and the irs doesn't make him a beacon of authority on the truth...

Are you kidding me? If she knew about what was going on, then absolutely hold her to account like the rest of our leaders at that time.... But if Gingrich is so adamant about high-ranking officials not lying "about national security both to the country and to the House of Representatives", then where was his call for an investigation into whether the former President and Vice-President LIED in pushing for war with Iraq? This kind of hypocrisy is a strong reason why I could NEVER vote Republican.

HEY NANCY!!!..LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!!..it's a good thing botox doesn't burn cause you would be a forest fire..it's time for you to resign and go back to socialist california..just go home nancy

Am I the only one who is thankful that our intelligence community has kept us safe and terror-free for the past 8 years? I really don't care if they waterboarded or not – my children and I sleep safely at night thanks to them.

I see Newt Gingrich is reverting to the old Republican tactic when they are not in power to stir up a big fuss about a Democrat "lying." Pathetic.

Newt is fully as irrelevant as the relationship between Nancy Pelosi and the planning and commission of torture. Pelosi did not design or plan the enhanced interrogation program, did not retrofit the survival training to be an aggressive tool to extract information in support of a political agenda, did not order the use of such a program, did not administer the waterboarding, and did not degrade our national character, our honor and our credibility by violating laws and international agreements. Pelosi did not put our troops at risk by ordering, justifying or practicing the sort of egregious behavior that we hoped would not be applied to our own military men and women. How will discovering the truth of Pelosi's knowledge of the illegal torture program (which may not be possible, given the lack of transcripts and the flaky-ness of the CIA who asserted that they had briefed Bob Graham on three dates when they could not have; remember these are the same people who assured us that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction) aid us as a nation in seeing that justice is served and in putting this horrendous chapter behind us?

Hey Newt as a lifelong dem who loves the fact that your party has lost all relevance, I have to ask do you really want Pelosi gone? She is you easiest liberal target in the party with her "San Francisco" values, if she goes you will not be able to paint Stony Hoyer the same way and he will be twice as effective as Nancy in pushing Obama's policy agenda's because frankly she is a poor speaker and only got in through the power of the California delegation. I expect her days are now numbered as the majority of dems been waiting to throw her under the bus for awhile now and this is a perfect excuse, plus gives party bonus points for sticking up for intelligence community.

I just have to say that Obama is not the only person who called water boarding torture. It seems to me that the supreme court has said it and even had hearings about it long before Obama became president. You wrote "now deemed torture by the Obama administration — in 2002 and 2003". Come on......I point this out because it would seem you are trying to be like a Fox news reporter. Obama is the cause of this torture talk.
Just pointing out that he is not.

Newt, You are a Ex, not a leader! Ms Speaker, Dum (Cheney) and Dummer (Bush Jr), is as bad as Nixon and the GOP/RNC!

The CIA would lie? I'm shocked I tell you...SHOCKED!!!!!

This from the guy who had an affair while his wife was in the hospital with Cancer. Why on earth does Gingrich think his "voice" has any credibility at all. I would say this is the pot calling the kettle black.

gingrich is a hypocrite, plain and simple!

Out in reality, it is easy for craft people to give a briefing and never discretely lie but be misleading. Examples include any politician's speech and most corporate annual reports. Without a recording of the meetings, fair people will never, ever, know for certain whether Pelosi was misled.

Shouldn't we be talking about the people who ordered the torture rather than someone who might have known about it? If Pelosi knew about it, I will be happy to send her to prison just as soon as Bush and Cheney and Yoo and Bybee and Rumsfeld and the rest are there.

Has everyone forgotten what a despicable, lying, PIG Newt is? He
is morally much worse that Pelosi will ever be. He served his wife
with divorce papers while she was in the hospital fighting cancer. He
cheated on his wife and he has alot of nerve to accuse someone of
lying and being despicable. Anyone who does what he did is capable
of doing anything to serve his own selfish motives. He is a PIG

You better prove that she lied first, then you may want to make some prison reservations for your friends, Bush, Chenny, Rumsfeld, Rice,
Rove and more. We were lied into a senseless war, lied to about prisoner abuse, and more. Newt, you and your friends are like cavitys in good teeth. Wow no wonder we're in; you're out.

Where was Gingrich while Bush was distroying America's image. Oh, sorry I forgot, he was helping.

Mrs. Pelosi made the decision to support, or at least not to oppose, enhanced interrogation techniques when her constituents had a post 9-11 mindset and wanted the CIA to do whatever was necessary to prevent further terrorist attacks.

Now that we've been kept safe for almost 8 years, the attention-deficit-disordered Americans have swung from "do whatever it takes" to "oh, how could you?" and Mrs. Pelosi has had to quickly back and fill to make it appear that this has been her stance all along.

So of course she had to resort to a little sleight-of-hand. As if anyone would believe that her aide, when briefed on enhanced interrogation techniques, merely told her he had been briefed, and never mentioned what he was briefed about. And as if it wasn't her job to make certain she had all the information from the briefing.

The level of duplicity here is nauseating. And the lack of character is even worse. Instead of taking responsibility for her own choices, she blames "the Bush administration" for her failure to mention enhanced interrogation techniques (if in fact she actually did object to them.)

She needs to put on her big girl panties and take responsibility for her decisions and her job performance.

Watch out Newt! What will you say when the Dems ask for the truth about Iraq, fired fed judges, Valerie Plame, Cheneys secret energy meetings (with his oil buddies) and a whole host of suspected illegal activities the old guard authorized.

I don't hear you shouting for formal investigation about any of that? No, in fact, I bet if they asked for investigations about any of that you'd whine and cry foul.

This has nothing to do with whether Palosi lied or not. The Republicans are just trying to create a controversy in order to make the Democrats look bad (Palosi is up for re-election next year). It's what they ALWAYS do. And it use to work well for them.

But Americans are sick of it. At least I am. Take your whinning somewhere else and start doing something to help the country.

Really, you're like a bunch of school yard bullies. Grow up!

Oh, and FYI, Sen. Bob Graham of Florida (former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee) also disputed the CIA's versions of the briefings. Turns out the CIA admitted they were wrong. "Their (CIA) information was in error. There was no briefing on the first three of four dates."

Better check your facts Newt before you start shooting off at the mouth. Oh wait... I forgot... shooting off at the mouth is all you Reps are good at.

the controversial waterboarding technique — now deemed torture by the Obama administration
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Pardon? Deemed TORTURE by the UN, our allies and every other Civilized country on the planet!

Republicans should keep up the pressure on Pelosi. Dems want war criminals prosecuted – regardless of their party affiliation. The longer Repubs keep this story in the news, the better chance there is that Cheney, Bush, Rice and company will end up in jail!

Wishful thinking on his part. no matter how hard he wishes it. All this is, is a distraction from the real story of documentation SHOWING that Bush / Cheney used torture to try to link Iraq to Al Queda. THAT is the story.

The media should hang their collective heads low at this point. I thought it was bad when they ignored the smoking gun of the Downing Street memo specifically stating that "facts were being fixed around the policy (of invading Iraq). BUT 'THIS'... To be complicit in allowing the GOP to blow up yet another non-issue while IGNORING A REAL ISSUE BANGING AGAINST THE DOOR FOR ATTENTION is true cause to now mourn the loss of the fourth estate.

Media...... SHAME on you all.

Newt, Newt...the Repub ham-handed attempts to shift attention away from their using torture (p.s., Waterboarding has been ILLEGAL since the 1880's in the US...) to try to force false-confessions out of prisoners – false confessions that would relieve the administration of trying to find some way to justify the useless, pointless Iraq war. The Bush administration are LIARS and MASS MURDERS! If Pelosi lied, well, she can pay the piper, but the real issue here is the Bush Administration as war criminals.

GET RID of Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker...she is a handy cap to the President and to the Democratic Party. If what she claims is "true" that she was "mislead", it only shows her ignorance...and being the 3rd in line to lead this country is scary!!!...since she either "can't remember...didn't know..didn't understand..."...yadda..yadda...yadda. She needs to go back to California and focus on her own state instead of being a leading member of this country. WE get to sit comfy in our homes because we have people in the CIA, FBI, and military who "watch out" for us...for her to call the CIA "liars" is despicable!!! Get her out FAST!!!

Gingrich is still playing games with the torture debate trying to deflect attention from the culprits to the critics. Why does CNN give this has-been so much covereage. I could care less what Newt thinks.

Maybe now the people of California will wake up and realize the damage that this woman has done for our nation along with Obama. Next election she needs to go!!!!! Obama needs to go too, befor3e this nation is financially beyond repair.. Enough is enough!! Fire both for telling lies!!

LOL! The Republican liars call Pelosi a liar. They think that by simply repeating it over and over again, it makes it true. Pelosi has called for the memo to be released so that the truth can come out. Until that tie, the republican liars will continue to try and distract the attention away from the real issue – the use of torture to extract false info from captured 'enemy combatants' – ie to try and prove the non-existent link between Al Qaida and Iraq. I hope they do go ahead with the truth commission. The more the Republican liars falsely accuse apelosi, the more likely this little chrade will end in a truth commission

Oh I know. Democrats do not have to play by the same rules. She could never be wrong since she is a democrat. The souble standards are amazing – almost as amazing as the brazen lies.

As a proud American and a veteran, I feel Ms. Pelosi's behavior is treasonous. Period.

Yeah, he's right. But, I'm curious. What is Gingrich's job title right now? What does the guy do? Seriously. Can someone answer that question for me?

Of course, Gingrich does not give a rat's derriere about honesty or integrity. He is just using this as a political lever to embarrass the government.

Bush lied. That's a fact.
Cheney lied. That's a fact.

Did Pelosi lie? No idea, however I don't think there's a reason to think that she's lied given exactly WHO was in the presidency when all this went on and how much power Bush and his cronies gave groups like the CIA. The last thing the CIA would want is to actually tell the truth to people who could pull their funding even though Bush had given them his blessing to break the law.

As we all know, just because the president does it doesn't mean that it's NOT illegal. Bush has lied, Bush should be the one Newt is going after.

But then that would require common sense and a sense of legality and honor, all of which people like Bush, Cheney and Newt don't have.

Did I miss something or did Newt Gingrich get elected to public office again??

I do think that Pelosi did know something (I really don't see how she couldn't) and that she isn't telling the truth here and that something needs to be done, but Newt is not a member of Congress anymore and its really none of his d*** business.

I can see why the defenders of torture would want to distract everyone's attention to the relatively insignificant issue of who was told about it when, but I don't understand why the media are playing this up as if it were anything but a minor footnote to the real issue of who broke the law in the first place.
Much, much more important than this Pelosi sideshow are recent testimonies that Cheney's real motive for instituting torture was to fabricate a case for attacking Iraq.

Gingrich should go back into the hole he came from. CNN stop giving him a voice! He isn't even in office or any official position.

Bob Graham has already asserted that the CIA had its facts wrong regarding his "briefings".

The CIA reported that Graham had been briefed 4 times, with specific dates. Graham's own journals showed that he had only been briefed once.

The CIA "corrected" this error.

Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that two (2) "staffers" were supposedly in this High-Level, Classified, Briefing that supposedly opened the kimono on the CIA using Waterboarding as a technique.

Also, the CIA report only states that the briefing covered "EITs", but DOES NOT specifically state that waterboarding was discussed.

That is what Pelosi has said from day 1.

You liberals need to stop blaming everything on bush go cry wolf to your self pelosi should step down ASAP

"But Gingrich says Panetta's letter puts "strong clear pressure" on the House to open a formal investigation." On Bush and Cheney who lied to the Americans and the world to go to war not Pelosi.

The Speaker wobbled in this one, in my opinion. Why I can't fathom because we are fighting a barbaric enemy. Although I do believe that the "enhanced interrogation" does not help (for the prisoner can always lie or give a partial truth), when she was allegedly told, in 2002, just one year after 9/11, no one would reproach anybody for supporting the president (Bush) in the war against Al-Qaeda. I believe the turning point for this unlimited support was the unjustified Irak invasion. It was at that point when the entire war policy should have been questioned - including prisoner treatment.

Man alive, can't someone put a muzzle on Newt? He can't seem to mind his own business. I understand that the Repubs are bitter after the election, but their actions since then evidence almost demonic desperation. Newt has not been hired as America's watchdog, thank heavens, and we don't need him spewing his verbose and nasty commentary everytime a Dem makes a statement.

If lying were cause to depose a Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich wouldn't have lasted beyond February of 1995. He lied continuously about everything and has no business making comments about Speaker Pelosi.

who the heck thinks we should listen to newt? he lost his credibility long ago when he left his wife at the hospital undergoing chemo. Trying to involve nancy pelosi in the failed policy of torture is interesting redirection. This is why the party is lost in the wilderness. Maybe they should focus on why they cant get more than 30 percent of the country to give a crap abot them

I got 5 bucks that says the gallon of milk in my refridgerator lasts longer than Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Any takers?

Newt Gingrich should just stay out of it. He's not in office any more and really has no voice in this matter. Just as Dick Cheney should shut up. Take a lesson from George W. Bush.

Hey Newt, go suck an egg...

Should I have kept my liberal mouth shut?

In what world does Newt live in that a person who lies about being briefed about waterboarding being used is worse then the people who actually authorized the waterboarding.
This is why I will never vote Republican.
They are full of crap.

Gingrich is a blowhard. He's still P.O.'d because he was forced to resign. He has no credibility-zilch-nada.

More bloviating to distract from the fact that the Bush Adminisitration approved TORTURE and should be held accountable.

Newt: Be gone! You have no power here.

I think it's CNN and other 'liberal' media outlets that's trying to shift the blame from Mr Cheney and co....I think that's even more despicable than the nonsense Newt is saying...

If she lied, she ought to resign. How come Newt is running point for the GOP. He has no room to critize anyone on correct behavior. Let's get rid of ALL our incumbents. They work for lobbyists not the PEOPLE.

I am suprised at Newt 's reaction towards Ms. Pelosi; i believe he is not being objective, going by his comments; why is he not calling for the heads of those (Cheny, Runsfeld, lastly, no disrespect, Bush) that authorized the use of waterboarding? My take on this whole thing is, even if anyone in congress had objected to the use of the torture level technique at the time, Bush; Cheney; Rumsfeld, et al did not respect anyone and as a matter of fact weren't going to listen. Remeber almost the whole country took to the streets to oppose the Iraq war but that didn't stop them. i need not say more. Food for thought, Newt!

Pelosi is a liar. Enough said.

Newt Gingrich should be censured, stop reporting the nonsense from this has-been blowhard.

Why would any intelligent person in this country listen to Newt Gingrich? A man who used his wife and family to get him where he was and then deserted her when she got sick. Then after all of the support she supplied to get him there, he had to resign from congress in disgrace. Just another narcissistic neo-con and a politician of the worst sort!

As a politician, she is a careerist and therefore a habitual and opportunistic liar. She'll say anything that she thinks will please her backers. Censure her and about 85% of both the House and Senate. They are major reason why this nation is in the position it is in today. Period.

Maybe this is why weak-spined Pelosi tool impeachment proceedings "off the table" during the early months of her Speakership. She obviously had (and still has) something to hide. I wish she would step down. She (along with Harry Reid) is an embarrassment to the democratic party.

I am all for this and for sure sending Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Condi, Rummy, Wolfie to the Hague for Crimes Against Humanities!!

If Pelosi could be ousted if she lied, does that mean that Bush and Cheney and the CIA Attorneys, Attorney General, etc. can be prosecuted for their torture policy?

So what is new? She has lied about everything else since she tok office over 2 years ago. She should have been dumped long ago.

Wow newt gingrich is an idiot...she didn't do anything wrong. And she's not third in line to be president....robert byrd is. The president is not in line to be president.

Interesting how gingrich and cheney have so much more to say when they are no longer in power, BUT the electorate spoke last November! The policies of the last eight years is not a place where the American people want to be. Right wing Republican views are NOT mainstream.

Who gives a flip what Gingrich thinks? Talk about irrelevant!

How dare he speak the word "censure" when Bush and Cheney redefined the word "lie" during their 8 years of abuse! It is appalling that the Republicans would stoop this low. They have no proof that what she is saying is not true, but they are so hungry for anything to attack with that they pick this. It's pathetic. Newt should crawl back to his cave in Georgia and take the ex-excuse for a Veep with him.

Nancy Pelosi is despicable...she needs to go.
She has always thought she was above the law, Well the old saying is what comes around goes around and Nancy is well overdue... Good Riddance... Hopefully....

We are wasting so much valuable time arguing about who knew what. Torturing is wrong. President Obama has made it policy to reject it. Now we must pass Climate Change and Health Care legislation. Let's move on.

Newt it is to hot for you to out from under your rock....

So CNN is now appointing Newt Gingrich as the spokes person for integrity in politics. Bush and Cheney lied about the reasons for invading Iraq; so is Gingrich saying both should have been empeached. Why isn't CNN covering the fact that former Senator Bob Graham said the same thing as Pelosi and he is known for his taking careful notes at meetings.

No doubt King will have him on his right wing show tomorrow.

Smoke and mirrors taking attention away from the real issue of torture aand as usual CNN falls right in line. No wonder your ratings are sinking.

Hey Newt – since when are you back in Congress???

This is the same mean-spirited divisive talk that swept the Democrats into the Presidency in 2008.

Let those in office decide whether an investigation is warranted. In the meantime – don't go away mad - just go away.

It's a habitual thing with her.

Nancy –
Please do not answer these 'charges'. This is a witch hunt. It is like Hillary bashing. Anything you say will be twisted. Lay low and the news cycle will turn. The American people are with you. We do not agree with this media circus. Don't give them any ammunition. Call Hillary and ask her how to survive Nancy bashing.
CityGirl

Poor Newt is trying to find his way back onto the political stage. No one can be as immoral as he. Speaker Pelosi is not lying; remember WMD (slam dunk) and Iran-Contra? Newt and the republicans are simply trying to get the monkey off their back.

There is no justification for Speaker Pelosi to drag the CIA into a public political squabble. If she truly believes she was lied to, there are private channels in which to conduct an investigation, gather the facts, and take appropriate action, if necessary.

Right or wrong on the specifics, Speaker Pelosi is handling this situation very poorly. A public squabble with the CIA is a very destructive way to handle this, and it plays directly into the stereotype that a San Francisco liberal can't be trusted with national security. I say this as a left-of-center career military officer.

It must be another slow news day for CNN to allow itself to be used as a forum for Newt "please have the press give me a forum because no one else will" Gingrich. Newt is not in office. His think tank is his basement. He's on his 3rd wife. This is sort of pathetic.

Why is there so much focus on such a small part of the torture story? Why is the media reporting so much of this tabloidy news about who said what about what Pelosi said? Why is there not much more focus on those who actually wanted to us torture, sought for and obtained legal 'approval' for torture? Isn't that the big story?!?! Who cares what Pelosi was told about it?!?! This is a minor aspect to a big story. Please focus on the big picture!

Note to Newt: Your title is "former Congressman."
Note to the Republicans actually in the House: If you want to bash Nancy Pelosi, have the courage to do it yourselves. Otherwise, tell your stalking horse to stop neighing.

You mean like Bush & Cheney did when they said the US didn't torture, knowing that they waterboarded? If they wish to pursue getting rid of Pelosi, then it seems they are opening the door to pursuing charges against Bush and Cheney as well. A lie is a lie, whether Bush, Cheney or Pelosi. How far does Ginrich wish to pursue?

I say if Newt wants to start a "war", lets get after it. Lets throw everything out on the table and and see where the cards fall. Bush, Cheney,Rice, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Gonzaliz - WAR CRIMES & Crimes Against Humanity. Lets play!!!!

I cant imagine too many folks would mind getting rid of her.

Hey Newt,

Crawl back into your hole. You're outta here Get over it!

Gingrich....another loud mouth Republican..The only thing they know is to complain...He thinks he is still in Congress but they thru him out long ago...Just go away and take Cheney with you...We have heard all we want to hear from you Repubs..

Lets stop obfuscating with these shadows - please! The real issue is who implimented these policies of torture and why: the Bush administration, to find a reason to invade Iraq. These are the truths we need to understand to aviod further mockery of freedom.

So long, Nancy. Can't stand the smell of you anyway.

I would have a problem if Nancy Pelosi lied. There is no call for that. If the Republicans choose to take action against her, all that does is open the door for a complete and thorough investigation into the wrongdoings and illegal actions of the Bush Administration.

Don't throw a punch if you cannot take one!

And, Bush, Dick, Rumsfeld and co. should go to jail if they lied to us!
Right, Newt?
And, what about you?????

It seems to me that anyone being in line to be President should watch what see says. I don't want Republicans to make hay of this issue but it should be looked into a little bit more. I consider myself an Independent or Progressive so I am not inclined to give the far right ammunition but ...

Is Gingrich elected to any post? NO? Why are you quoting his every rant?

So Gingrich thinks Nancy Pelosi should be ousted for lying! What about Bush and Cheney – why weren't they impeached for their lies? If the Republicans follow through with this, then it is fair game on Bush, Cheney and Rove!

During the Bush Administration I wanted Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to take the bull by the horns and hold hearings on Bush and his lies. Unfortunately, they felt it would tear the country apart – well look what is happening now – the Republicans want Nancy Pelosi and then they will go after Harry Reid. When will the Democrats wake up, hopefully, not before its too late!

Can you Prove it NEWT. Whatever she was told was behind closed doors.....not notes. Bush and Cheney approved the torture Period.

Why is everyone on Pelosi? They should be prosecuting the ones that implimented torture in the first place! bush,cheney,rumsfield etc. I know if I was being tortured I'd tell you anything your little heart desired! The real reason the "right wing" is making hay over the who knew about it,is to cover a more perverse & sinister things they did to men,women & children. cheney is trying to make a case that waterboarding is the only terrible thing to conceal and put Obama & co. back on their heels so the truth wont be revealed and the Obama will be quieted from actually prosecuting bush,cheney&co..

Pelosi is typical of most of our congressional leaders..she has been corrupted by a system that is no longer an effective representational organization for the American People. But Gingrich isn't the voice we should be listening to, he is more contemptable and corrupted than Pelosi. It's sad when news outlets like CNN give him a voice.

Prove it NEWT. Whatever she was told was behind closed doors.....not notes. Bush and Cheney approved the torture Period.

SHE LIED, SHE LIED, SHE LIED. We are all told sacrifices need to be made by all. WHY then does she not use public flights to go back & forth to CA instead Pelosi wanted "carte blanche for an aircraft
any time," including weekend trips home to San Francisco. Pretty nice
but very expensive perk! Her Air Force C-32 costs approximately $15,000 an hour or approximately $300,000 per trip home.

Not only that but the King of Green Al Gore – average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month. In natural gas alone, his property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.

More hypocrisy by the Dems. SHE LIED, take her out.

come on newt get serious at this point all we have is he said and she said, before any action is even considered we need
DOCUMENTATION---DOCUMENTATION--–DOCUMENTATION !!!!!!!

Here's an idea: a FULL investigation into who authorized the torture?

Since the Republicans suddenly care about what Pelosi knew and when she knew it, they should fully support a thorough investigation into the torture activities as authorized by the Bush/Cheney administration and if they are guilty of war crimes.

The are redirecting the attention away from themselves by focusing on Pelosi. We the people should demand a FULL INVESTIGATION and PROSECUTION of ALL people involved at the executive level.

When it comes to hypocrisy, old Newty takes the cake. Sure Pelosi may need a swift kick in the butt, but certainly not from Newt. He's not even in Congress and he's dictating. What nerve. That unhappy old coot should just sit down and shut up.

What a smokescreen. What about the people who actually tortured or devised the policies that deemed torture acceptable? Why are they wandering about being paid lecture fees and appearing all over Fox News while windbags like Gingrich- who is, I will add, no longer an elected official- speculate about appropriate censure for what is at worst a case of political rear-covering?

This is NOT by any reasonable means where we should be focusing our attention right now. This is NOT where we need an investigation. This is pure partisan politics, a tempest in a teacup wrought by right-wing extremists who will seize on anything for the possibility of a return to the spotlight for themselves and a return to power for their party.

If Pelosi can be investigated for lying while Cheney walks away scot-free while questions of coercing false intel to link Iraq and Al-Qaeda under torture remain unanswered, there is something deeply sick going on in this country.

And, dear moderator, I would appreciate it if you would post my comment for once. I am truly baffled that what I write doesn't meet your rigorous standards while dozens of "this is what I expect from those commie pinko liberals" comments go through.

Time for Newt to leave the scene. He is a hasbeen and nothing else

If Newt is so angry wether Pelosi may have lied or not about a memo she may or may not have understood what about the Republicans that created the policy to torture ... why is he not at least as offended by the actual act of breaking the constitution and international law?

Why isn't Gingrich calling for Rice, Cheney, and co. to be investigated. Investigate Pelosi if you like, but investigate everyone, and anyone who acted illegally, which Gingrich apparently doesn't think Pelosi did or he would be calling for her to be prosecuted, should be put in jail. How's that for a bipartisan solution?

She just keeps digging herself a deeper hole. Of course she lied.

Republicans are pros at deflecting criticism. The issue is if the Bush Administration tortured people...so what do Republicans do? They make the issue about whether the Speaker of the House is being honest.....please, we're tired of the smoke and mirrors...for once repubs should just take responsibility and quit lashing out.....what a bunch of hypocrites ...

I voted for Obama and am a Democrat, however I think Nancy Pelosi is of the past. We need new leadership who can bring about consensus in the House. She needs to be replaced.

This is just a diversion, GOP always does this to keep the Americans from looking at them. Pelosi did not order, commit, or use TORTURE. This is just more GOP lies and deception. Why aren't people aware of their tricks. The GOP does not want the TRUTH to get out. I'm not fond of Pelosi but I know what the GOP does, just look at the Bush Administration. The GOP is made up of the most devious people I have ever seen.in my life. Integrity, honesty, sincerity, caring for others is not apart of their personality. Most of them appear to have NO GOD in their lives. Most of them worship MONEY and will lie, cheat, and steal for it.

THEY NEED TO GET OFF PELOSI'S BACK. PUBLISH EVERYTHING LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DECIDE WHO IS LYING, WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH. IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF WASHINGTON DC.MONEY IS THE GOPS GOD.

The only institution in our government that needs the don't ask don't tell program is the CIA.. and Leon may be mistaken about the CIA being here long after he is gone
our new administration is going to make all the departments stand up and be honest ..and that is what has been a long time comming .

so get over the harrasment and lets turn the page and start working together .. another finger pointing childish action

She lied is still lying and should be kicked out of Congress.

Why is that Newt? You lied and cheated on your wife. And now you think you should lead the country? Where?

So you can't serve if you lied? Really?
Tell that to the Bush administration....

A Republican railing against someone for lying. How hypocritical is that? Gingrich is part of the master liars that caused all the problems we're suffering with today. His fellow Republicans should be ashamed of their disgraceful performance, their failed policies, the false war, 4,000+ dead soldiers, doubling the national debt and their egregious attempts to destroy America. What a bunch of creeps.

Yes, Newt, you're right, there should be a formal investigation. Of ALL of it. When Cheney and his legal staff are in the dock for ordering torture, THEN we can screw around over who they told under what legal requirements of secrecy.

Let's do this thing. Let's have it all out now, in court, everyone involved. We'll see who the real liars and criminals are.

Oh, PLEEEZE. Newt Gingrich is giving advice on how to prosecute liars! Let's start trotting out the National Liars Hall of Fame if Newt wants to get on that political crazy train. Does Newt think anything will resurect his ambitions? Calling names and being the attack liar for the GOP hardly means CNN has to give this idiot space in the news. I got a bunch of guys at the local bar that make better cases half hour before closing time.

i'm getting sick and tired of the repubs. calls for censure? for someone who lied? hearkens back to the clinton days...

but where was this phony outrage while bush, cheney, condoleeza, rumsfield, alberto were being questioned.

republicans make me sick.

Pelosi is in hot water–true. But Newt? The psuedo intellectual philander's fifteen minutes of fame were up years ago–he is only hurting the republican party by trying to resurect his ego/career.

Although I know Gingrich has an ax to grind in his partisan attack on Pelosi, she deserves everything she gets–a censure, an ousting, and a permanent boot in her rearend–out of Congress. She has disgraced women in the way she has abused her position of authority, and has made it difficult for any woman of character and integrity to attain the position of Speaker of the House in the future.

Im sure Newt NEVER lied as house speaker.

Why is anyone talking to and listening to Newt Gingrich. He should go back to the rock that he's been living under for the past decade.

Hey Newt, have you been on Mars the past eight years. The Bush/Cheney administration gives new meaning to the word "lie." You and your cohorts should get a life and listen to the American people. We are absolutely sick of the Republican party and all their hullaballoo. Get it Newt. You, Cheney, Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the gang are well aware of your actions. Quit trying to blame Pelosi for something that is ABSOLUTELY NOT HER FAULT. Focus on the real problem, torture is against the law, and your Republican buddies broke the law, lied to the nation, and so far have appeared to be above the law. Nancy Pelosi is the least of my concerns!

This could be the best thing that happens for the Democratic Party! There is no way she should be the Speaker of the House. The way that Pelosi has represented the party over the years have been terrible. Get her out of that position and find somebody worthy of that title.

Quick, look at the left hand while the right hand robs you again and again. Pelosi isn't someone I trust, and I wouldn't be surprised to find her lying, but the case at hand is about the Cheney administration torturing and now all the idiots are talking about what Pelosi knew, instead of what they know is true, that Cheney authorized torture and is a war criminal.

My sense is Pelosi is confused about her own statements. I have never seen such a shallow attempt to protect one's self in the face of clear incompetence and lack of intellect.
Her arguement should dismiss the entire Bush administration since they would have been misled also.
None of her position is credible, and certainly not an impress defense of her position.

Folks, wouldn't it great to get rid of all politicians with over 10 years experience? TERM LIMITS

Who cares what Newt Gingrich says? He is a disgraced former politician. He is part of the disenfranchised Republican lie machine. Why his remarks make news is beyond me. Obviously he is vying for power. What an embarrassment. What a joke.

Nancy was just too busy being self important and contradicting during the breifing. So, she missed it when they told her. No surprise, it happens when you don't listen.

Newt, Newt, Newt – when are you going to grow up and stop being such a GOP sheep? In all likelihood Pelosi is the first to come clean on this whole issue. Instead of talking about censure for her courage, I'm thinking a commendation would be more appropriate. Once you work past your anger and envy I think you'll see that. Newt, your party is on greased rails toward irrelevancy. Hinting at censuring Pelosi certainly won't change that fact, but you'e certainly free to try.

By the way, your party has lost big in the last two elections. Are there any dots you'd like to try connecting here?

What's the big stink about? Didn't Bush lie? And Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez?

Where's their accountability?

For the first time, I find myself agreeing with Newt. If Pelosi even colored the truth, she should be censured. I am sure Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzalez did much worse, but that's why their party got voted out. Pelosi's statements should be scrutinized as deeply as those other characters' were. Newt is right, she is 3rd in line to be commander-in-chief and that position comes with extra scrutiny. All elected officials should be subject to that.

Wait, so Newt is arguing that Pelosi should be censured for "lying about national security" for saying that she was not aware techniques that Newt and the Republican party are defending were being used?

Isn't this like saying "You should be punished, because you didn't tell everyone about practices which we support and authorized, but which you had no involvement with besides the obligation to not tell anyone about the briefing you received?"

This is getting seriously twisted. It seems like the republican leadership is trying to cultivate a witch hunt to distract from their own misdeeds.

What I see here is a man bent on exacting revenge for his own ouster. I do not see his rampage as a true concern for others. God help us if the USA listens to Newt Gingrich again. He wasted millions in taxpayer money in a fruitless campaign of personal destruction aimed at the Clintons with Whitewater, and rightly lost his post in disgrace. Gingrich is truly a dispicable cad. Look at him. Picking on a woman! What a bully. This adulterer, who wants to claim some sort of moral superiority, that he has to deflect the blame from those who truly betrayed our principles to lady who probably knew little more than we did about the violations that were taking place against the Geneva Convention.

Give me a break! This is'nt about what Pelosi knew, this is about the Bush admin torturing people and lying to all of the American people and getting us into a war we did'nt need to be in! THe Repubs know they don't have a chance if they have to defend there actions so let's attack Nancy, because she pointed out that we are lied to all the time in this Country from every political party-I believe the Government should work for the people, but everyone is so worried about being re-elected no one will take a stand. There needs to be an investigation, so the truth about Bush,Cheney and all there lies and deceit will be revieled!

Is Gengrinch, the head of the old white man's party? Clearly he has run out if things to whine about and is not doing any work for the people anyways.

Not to make Pelosi look good, but with Gringrich criticizing her is like the fox guarding the chickens.

I would not believe Gringrich any more than I would believe George W. Bush, so I really do not believe either of them.

In my small circle of liberal friends, Newt Gingrich is what we call a "floater." You know, that fat, ugly turd that won't flush... it floats. No matter how much water is wasted; no matter how long one might stand there, flushing that toilet time and time again. THAT FAT, UGLY TURD will not go away.

Is Gengrinch, the head of the old white man's party? Clearly he has run out if things to whine about and is not doing any work for the people anyways.

Kick her out.

Go ahead Newt, complete the thought...if Pelosi's charged for lying, what's the next step? C'mon Newt, you're a smart guy and you should know where this will lead- straight to W. and Dick's door.

Why does the media lend an ear to Newt Gingrich? Is he in office? is he running for office? With his track record of leaving his wife while she was in the hospital, he can't be a standard bearer for the sanctity of marriage. My point is he is not relevant (much like Rush Limbaugh!). Did I cover the issue?

How quickly Newt has forgotten he held the same position and he did stretch certain truths to his advantage. I would love to see a Republican without sin cast the first stone... guess I will have to wait a while.

As far as my opinion of Newts words.... blah, blah, blah, and more of the same old blah, blah, blah.

We have not forgotten that it was Republicans in Washington that had to have ethics training.... and ethics and morals go hand in hand. Deceivers will always come to light... it is just a matter of time.

Randall

How many times have *you* bent the truth, Newt? If I recall correctly, you are no longer serving in any constructive capacity. Pelosi is ten times the speaker you could have been, but you were too busy kissin up to corporations and lobbyists.

Once again the nation is subjected to the outrageous, shameless hypocrisy of the Republican Party. Was it not a big enough lie for the previous Republican administration to push the CIA into producing false evidence about WMD in Iraq, leading to the longest and most expensive war in the history of our nation? Pelosi is no saint and not particularly well-liked by many Democrats or Independents. But personal attacks waged by the Republican smear machine are just more "red herring" tactics designed to delay and destroy real progress in our country. Gingrich is Cheney is Limbaugh is Palin is Fox News. Shut up. Grow up. And help President Obama fix our broken country.

I'm a Democrat but if Nancy Pelosi lied, I agree that she should be ousted as Speaker. 1. Because she lied to the House and the American people and 2. Because she didn't bring it up then that the United States was illegally torturing. We need people that are willing to do the right thing, or call someone out when they're doing it wrong, rather than saving their own career.

Let's see the transcript of what the CIA said, that Pelosi is asking for. Gingrich is trying to find trouble where there isn't. Panetta was not with the CIA at the time being discussed.

Obama could have put this to bed a long time ago, but he decided to vote present and play both sides of the field. Wouldn't it have been nice if Obama simply said we are moving on and will not look at the legal actions of the past administration.

By the way, I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how you can call enhanced interogation methods immoral, but claim that the abortion issue is above your paygrade. No one was hurt with the enhanced interogation methods and in fact many lives were saved. The only person helped when their is an abortion, in a vast majority of the cases, are the people who were irresponsible to begin with. And there is no doubt that a human life is taken. If you are going to make a claim that enhanced interogation methods are immoral, have the guts to call abortion immoral.

Newt has a crush on Nancy ha ha ha. Is this all GOP payback because of Delay? Go Newt go take Nancy with you and the other slime in the GOP, she's just another Bush bootlicker.

Since when do Newt Gingrich or the CIA deserve an ounce of credibility? Deceit is what the CIA does. They were involved in Iran/Contra, the Bay of Pigs, and in hiding their interrogation and torture from the 9/11 Commission and then destroying them. The head of the CIA was part of the Bush conspiracy to permit rendition, detention, and torture at black sights in foreign countries, Guantanamo, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The slimy Newt (Gingrich) and fellow Republicans are creating a distraction of attacking Pelosi to conceal the illegal policies of the Bush Administration. Gringrinch leads the attacks against Pelosi; Cheney attacks Obama.

Pelosi called their bluff when she called for a complete investigation. Fine, let's have Addington, Bybee, Yoo, Gonzales, Tenet, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush and all the rest testify under oath. Then we'll see who has made the most "dispicable, partisan, attack" we've ever heard of.

He need to shut up. He is just making noise.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that only members of congress could call for censure? What year is this? Am I in a time-warp? Did this guy get re-elected and I missed it? Oh, that's right, no time-warp, just the last dying breathes of a political hack.

Newt, you are not helping your party. You could, however, be helping yourself if you had anything relevant to say.

First, someone with Gingrich's oft-demonstrated lack of character should be the LAST, the VERY LAST person to be casting stones, given the glass house he lives in.

Second, the notion that someone long out of office representing a party that has been roundly defeated in two straight elections and is solidly in the minority in both houses can hope to attain a censure of the Speaker of the House is beyond ludicrous.

Third, I think Gingrich knows this and that he, Cheney, and Limbaugh are desperately trying to breath life into the discredited right wing of the Republican party. That dog just ain't gonna hunt though. Good thing too cause Cheney'd likely shoot somebody else in the face. Maybe Newt.

Listening to Gingrich is torture. I like how the story has gone from torturing to justify a fake war so Cheney and company could get rich to insinuating that Pelosi is lying about knowing that torture took place. Whatever, the media does a poor job these days and will cease to exist because of it someday.

I think that the Republicans are using Pelosi as a gimmick to get away from the fact that they themselves have made so many mistakes during the past eight years and they have no ideas at all on how to fix the problems they instigated.

If they can say that others have lied about anything politically they should begin by going back on ALL the LIES spoken by them through Bush and Cheney.

The GOP party has a LOT to answer for.

Gingrich should take a hike!! He is the biggest liar ever to accend the speakership!! He is a congenital liar and a womanizer at that!! So please Mr. former speaker get lost!!

No one listens to this hypocritical opportunist. Newt Gingrich is just a loser blowhard. He should partner with El Tubbo.

and health care for all Americans ,end of illegitimate type wars killing innocent families ,yea banks are gonna turn around and help everybody after getting their hundreds of billions ,right,New Orleans will be rebuilt and safe sure thing ,less crime crime and poverty torture exposed darn right folks .

Nancy Pelosi should Resign, and we won't vote for any Democrat for office Until she Does. She is a Lier and a disgrace .When you make a mistake you have to be adult enough to admit it. She is to Immature to do that . She has Shamed the party

"after all she is third in line to be president" If he's talking about succession, she is SECOND in line, after Biden. Have the CIA release the full transcript of the briefing, and let the chips fall where they may. But the real issue is who authorized these interrogation procedures, and when.

Let's get this straight. It was okay for the Bush administration to lie to the entire world and blame the war in Iraq on bad information from the CIA. It was okay for Cheney's office to out a CIA agent because her husband said that there were no WMDs in Iraq. It was okay for the the Bush administration to break International and American laws regarding torture trying to find a link between Iraq and 9/11. But because Pelosi feels she was mislead by the CIA regarding the use of waterboarding, blow hard Gingrich wants her ousted as Speaker. Priceless. Dough boy # 2 needs to go back under the rock that he came out from after 10 years.

Such a transparent attempt to distract attention from Republican wrongdoing! I say, however, let the Congress begin its formal investigation of this whole torture mess, and let what heads need to roll, roll. After all, how can Congress go after Pelosi and leave Cheney and company, the architects of this sorry business, untouched? The Republicans apparently need their arses kicked, kicked, and kicked again, vigorously and with all the force that can be mustered, and I say, bring it on.

Nobody really believes she will be censured do they? That would mean that the democratic controlled house would have to censure one of it's own. That's not going to happen. Hell may freeze over, but the democrats will not censue Pelosi.

NEWT Gingrich has business going around running his mouth about nothing. He lost and thats it. He should be ashamed of himself for trying to incite a backlash against Pelosi

We will not know the truth unless there is a complete investigation. Also if she did lie she should be held accountable for it, to me the point isnt just whether she lied or not the point is that torture is illegal in the U. S. So those who did torture should be held accontable also so the republicans need to stop trying to take the focus off the Bush administraton.

It's not going to happen, because the MSM will not question her on her allegation that the CIA habitually lied to congress. Congress will take her correction that said the Bush administration lied to congress.

The MSM are as guilty as Pelosi in this fiasco.

Newt should know, he's been there.

It isn't a question of whether she lied. Considering she's had at least 5 different versions of what happened, it's obvious she lied. But don't hold your breath. A Democrat controlled House will shoot down any attempt at an investigation, let alone start their own. This is the Democrats version of "change you can believe in".

Really Newt? What about the lies Republicans have stated over the years? Although I agree that Nancy and EVERYBODY invoved in this whole sorry and damaging saga should be investigated, when it comes to who is telling the truth, who are we to believe?

And Newt should know... no one knows like a man who dumps wives as they are being treated for cancer.

What a hypocrite!

Newt, maybe you should move to an undisclosed location in Wyoming and wear a muzzle. Or get a brain scan, to make sure you still have one. Is he trying to out-Cheney Cheney? Newt's been gone since he was repudiated last century. He should stay gone.

Pelosi did most definitely not "lie about national security." At the very worst, she "lied" about what the CIA told her, and this has yet to be proven by the actual documents. But what do Republicans care about actual documents? Ever since Joe McCarthy they've preferred fictional ones, whether about secret commies, CREEPy Nixonian slush funds and burglaries, Reagonian secret arms deals to fund a war in Central America, or Bushian torture, WMDs and Iraqi nukes.

CIA lying when it briefed her in 2002 is not "about national security." It's about Bush Administration lies. Just another small one on a growing heap. And given the CIA's history, until proven otherwise, I'll take her word for it.

When did Gingrich get into the US House to decide anything or have a voice in anything? Isn't this assh*le just blowing his big mouth?

Has anybody mentioned to this irrelevant gasbag he is not only no longer in the House and has no power whatsoever but that his only current distinction is that of a serial adulterer?

He wasn"t there. Boehner wasn't there. Bond wasn't there. Hunter wasn't there. McConnell wasn't there. Cornyn wasn't there. Panetta wasn't there. Pelosi WAS there. End of story.

And in what officail capacity does Newt claim to have the authority to call for anyone to be censured over anything?

When Cheney is executed for war crimes and treason, then go ahead and go after Pelosi. This is another diversion by that lyin', cheatin' Gingrich. He has no class and should try to keep his third marriage from falling apart rather than take pot shots. He had his chance and blew it.

This is the typical spine-less type of scumbag pigs we have for rep's in our government in the US....all they care about is keeping their snouts in the money and power troughs!!!! Of course she lied....that is what they do!!!!!

Gingrich just needs to go away. This is the guy who brought divirce papers to the hospital for his wife to sign while she was in there for cancer treatments. He's self-serving and one of the most hypocritical people ever in politics.

Newt....Nancy Pelosi "called on the CIA to release a full transcript of the briefing". Can't get much clearer than that. We know you had a hissy fit on Air Force One, disembarking from the rear of the plane; we know that you conducted an adulterous affair at the same time that you were pointing your finger at Bill Clinton; and we can expect your fangs to come out hoping that Speaker Pelosi loses her position.....primarily because you lost yours when you were censored by the Senate. I'm hoping that many investigations of all parties are conducted, in public, so that our country begins to understand how the politicians conduct business.

Dr. Cockamamie rants on and on about issues he is clueless about. He defines "out of the loop".

Pelosi is an irritant. Worse, she places her self interests above everything. There is no honor in this Speaker.

Go back into the woodwork Newt.

Who cares what you think Gingrich! You are so ignorant...calling for a "formal investigation"...Pelosi "the third ranking official, third in line to be president, can be allowed to lie about national security"!
Pot calling the kettle black I would say. Didn't BUSH and CHENEY lie to the country? Now all you Rethugs want to move forward! Well, LET'S MOVE ON, or YOU might want to rethink what you wish for! Pelosi has called on the CIA to release a full transcript of the briefing–I believe you will be oweing Nancy Pelosi an apology!!!!

Someone should censure Gingrich's mouth. Everyone with a brain knows that the CIA, Bush and Cheney all lied about torture and they were the ones who approved and administered it. Where was Gingrich then? This is hypocricy at its zenith and CNN should stop reporting this losers comments who was forced to leave the House because of ethics violations.

This is a typical consequence of ignoring the Constitution, when Pelosi took impeachment off the table it opened the door for the Bush administration to run roughshod over the nation and corner her for ignoring torture and war crimes. Constitutional requirements are never off the table since they are the ammo set in place by our founding fathers!!! Now Speaker Pelosi knows why it was included in our Constitution and why it is ALWAYS ON THE TABLE!!! Simple checks and balances oft ignored yet omnipresent in our government.

I guess the thrice divorced born again "catholic" Newt figured that the Notre Dame controversy he was trying to lecture the president about was backfiring. He's shifted his sites on Pelosi because she might know that his party was into torture. I guess what would be the big deal about what she knew if wasn't illegal. Irony isn't Newt's strong suit.

Do you at CNN have some special love for Newt Gingrich? How else to explain why he gets two "ticker" stories in 24 hours devoted to the "news" that (surprize!) he doesn't like Pelosi? Two entries in one day for this non-story about the has-been Newt's personal (and predictable) opinions?

I voted for Obama, BUT She must GO!

Why in the world does CNN and the rest of the press give this craphead Newt air time. I am so sick of the republicans trying to take the heat off bush, cheney, rice and the republican justice department by zeroing in on Pelosi. Other members of the committee have backed her up. AND WHO IN THE DEVIL BELIEVES ANYTHING THE CIA WOULD SAY.

They are oh so so truthful aren't they. Denying they used the torture technique anyway.

I wish some body would stick a sock of you know what in newt's mouth. Who in the devil wants to listen to this jerk.

Who is Newt Gingrich that everything the man says is a headline? Who cares his opinion on anything. Wasn't his party the one that got us into this madness in the fist place. His man George W. Bush the dumb.

The world would be so much better off without racist, rednecks and republicans. The three R's that are so intertwined behind the glass.

I would have Bin Laden over for super, before I would ever invite Dick Cheney

At least the conversation would be more interesting ...

And I would certainly feel safer with Bin , when my back was turned

Poor Newt...Living in a fantasy land. The coup happened under Gingrich when Congress kicked him under the bus...He only wishes it would happen to Pelosi.

You can bet that if Pelosi was a Republican she'd have already been hung on a cross!

Newtie,

Get a brown paper bag and breathe deeply into it. you're hyperventilating – again.

Once you get things under control you might want to take a look in the mirror.

If Pelosi lied about what she knew, she should be punished in some way. However, if we are going to start ousting those people who lie about knowing the truth, the entire congress would be empty. We would find ourselves ousting, cops, judges, prosecuters, etc.

Secondly, I think we're forgetting that if ANYONE should be investigated it should be President Busch and Cheny who has admitted to using these techniques. Republicans trying to take the view from them.

Newt didnt read it. others who are critical of the speaker didnt read it.
full disclosure as Pelosi has requested. lets shut down Newt and the gang.

Pelosi said the briefing she received from the CIA was incomplete and inaccurate, and she called on the CIA to release a full transcript of the briefing.

To CNN and all media, I am not a huge Pelosi fan BUT the last time I checked, Newt Gingrich is NOT an elected official. So why are you all paying attention to anything he says about Pelosi's status in the House?
You all are providing him with credibility he doesn't deserve.

The Republicans are simply trying to distract from the real story, which is that torture was ordered from high up in the Bush Administration. A Special Prosecutor should be appointed – sooner rather than later.

IF it wasn't for Nancy, Bush would have been IMPEACHED long ago, she blocked for him. So Newtie boy, shut your trap and run around on your wives, it is the ONLY thing you will gain fame for.

Yawn. Who cares. Yes it was wrong, yes it was bad, but can we move on now. Can we get down to business on healthcare.?!!!!!

correct me if I am wrong, but she can't just go blabbing everything she hears at the meetings she attends with the CIA. I believe there are LEGAL rules about that and if she did know something and didn't announce it it was probably becaues she was following the rules. Something republicans don't really seem to know much about.

The Republicans should be careful about hitting Pelosi on this torture issue,she cannot be dammed without damming their party.they were in power when it happened, i beleive this is a trap because you cannot censor her without full investigation.

That;\'s rich – the likes of any Republican saying someone should be punished for lying! What did Gingrich or Bush, or Cheney, or half the Republicans do but lie for their reign??????

Newt would certainly know a lot about lying and liars ...

This is a NON-ISSUE blown out of preportion to detract attention from the real issues surrounding the secret tortures used by the Bush Administration

Covered up by all they inforced ... including Colin Powell and the CIA ... never mind what they hid from the American people

WAKE UP AMERICA ... the real terrorist's are in our own door-yard

People like Dick Cheney ... Karl Rove ... George Bush ... The American version of the AXIS OF EVIL ...

The Truth HURTS doesn't it boys ...

Her answer is pathetic. How stupid does she think everyone is?

This is not a shock folks...EVERY interview I've seen with Pelosi shows her being asked questions and NOT giving straight answers. I expect it from slime like Cantor who does the same thing, but the Dems usually have common sense, science, progress, or good policy on their side. Pelosi is a complete joke and has been since day one.

Toss that bag! We can do better.

If we are too worried about the economy to go after Bush and Cheuney and their prchestration of an illegal war, their illegal use of torture, ect. I really think we are really too busy to be concerned about what Pelos knew and when. Really it is the equivalent, if Pelosi is even guilty that is, of Martha Stewart serving time for insider trading when the head of Enron walked away after massively selling off stock and stealing the retirements of everyone in his company. What a screwed up system.

The Exspeaker of the House needs to just take the exit door to the left and keep on walking toward his home – their to never make politicial comments

Excuse me, but who in the world cares what Newt Gingrich thinks, about anything? I sure don't.

The real problem for the Republicans is this: the last person in the world to talk about ethics in Congress is Newt Gingrich. Are we to forget the 300 grand fine imposed on him? Are we to forget that he was engaged in an affair with a staffer at the same time he was working for Bill Clinton's impeachment? Pelosi may be in trouble but she'll survive it as long as Newt is the lead attack dog.

The Nancy Pelosi flap is much ado about nothing. The Repug "outrage" at her statements is a smoke screen to take our focus off the fact that torture was used against our system of laws and the people who ordered it should be punished. Keep your eye on the ball, people!

Not that I agree with the way Pelosi is handling this controversy, but Gingrich has a lot of gall criticizing Pelosi for lying. Gingrich was the guy having an affair while prosecuting the impeachment of President Clinton for having an affair (well, technically on charges of perjury) and throwing stones each night on the various news programs. Oh, the than Speaker of the House railed against Clinton for his many moral shortcomings. The former speaker does protest to much.

Gingrich is being a hater.

Yes Lets do appoint a special invesitgator to find out who knew and did nothing..Bet all republicans who were in charge and some dems will be outed but most important we cannot be silent about what the cons did, for although some are guilty of crimes all are responible if we stay silent. ..We knew but couldnt prove it now lets prove it..

Hey Newt, President Bush lied about WMD's and about torture, so what's new? Pelosi may be vulgar, but Gingrich is just plain ugly.

Newt Gingrich the authority on honesty? What next, Hitler the authority on mercy?

Newt is just mad because he was forced out as Speaker after he was reprimanded in 1997 for ethics violations and in 1998 after the midterm elections when Republicans lost some seats.

The article says "Pelosi said the briefing she received from the CIA was incomplete and inaccurate, and she called on the CIA to release a full transcript of the briefing." So, let's hope they are released so we can see what actually happened, and then we'll be able to judge her accurately.

Yes, it's a serious matter if she lied.

However, infinite more serious, are the facts that have come out, and the self admissions by Dick Cheney, that the CIA were ordered to committ acts of torture.

Immediately before and after asking about when Pelosi will have to step down as Speaker, Gingrich should be asking the question of – when will Dick Cheney be charged for ordering torture.

She should be removed. She is an embarrassment to the Democratic Party.

NB: I am a Democrat.

Gingrich, another pathetic waste of a human.

Hello! This is a gender issue. Pelosi is being scapegoated. Just like I have seen white men in Texas do a hundred times before.... think Oprah in the early 90's when she said she didn't like beef. It was the white male dominated beef industry that said they weren't going to let her get away with her remark. Oprah won that law suit. This is about women and the way white males (in particular) react to threats to their power. Republicans must take the blame for torture in the Bush Administration. Please notice that Newt Gingrich is a white man, trying to regain power he began to lose as Speaker. Newt is a lizard.

Newt Gingrich continued his attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Saturday, saying she "defamed everyone" in the intelligence community and he can't "see how she can serve as speaker if it turns out that she has lied about national security both to the House and to the rest of the country.”
So, perhaps Newt should wait until the he knows who is telling the truth at
and who isn't . Since, by the statement above he doesn't really know anything he really should stuff a sock in his mouth and shut the hell up.

Her house of cards consisting of lies and cover-ups is falling.

Do the honorable thing and resign your seat - enough of this crap is enough. She is no better than the Bush Administration and officials that were also involved.

Maybe she should also be charged with being an accessory to torture - as well as other House and Senate members who were also aware of it and did NOTHING!!!!

Noone should be calling the kettle black when there are more on both sides of the aisle just as guilty.

tthought CNN censors would not let my comment go. I can always got to nesvine at msnbc who do not believ in censorship.

Who is Newt Gringrich to be attacking the present Speaker of the House. If my memory serves me correctly he had some problems himself when he was the Speaker. The Republicans aren't in control of their own party let alone the country.

Nancy Pelosi should be banned forever from running for any political office. She has served the Speaker of the House with shame and dishonor. There is no one more divisive in politics today than this political hack, Nancy Pelosi.

Gingrich is a sleazebag. Doesn't anyone remember he left Congress in shame? He has zero credibility. CNN and the media in general are losing credibility each time they publish comments from this loser.

Newt Gingrich is the last person who ought to be lecturing anyone on embarassing and shaming Congress.

Enough already on Nancy Polosi, the CIA and Torture! Where was the outrage and 24/7 coverage when President Bush lied us into a war? Bush and the Republicans broke the law by torturing, and the news is trying to make it seem like Nancy Polosi did it. I rarely watch CNN now, they are becoming more like FOX News. Not Fair, and Not Balanced. Why don't you just report all the news and leave it to the viewers to decide? Where is the outrage and the news reporting of the failed Bankruptcy Bill to help millions of Americans that are losing their homes to foreclosure.Most Republicans voted against that bill – if that was being covered 24/7 more main street viewers would watch CNN. GIVE US NEWS, NOT OPINIONS 24/7

Hey Newt,

I don't remember you asking the House to censure you for your lies about a college course you claimed tax exempt status for while you were Speaker. And, what about your lying to the House Ethics Committee. Aren't you being just a little hypocritical, Newt?

LOL @ New Gingrich...the King of Ethics all of a sudden?

Keep talking Newt, the country is tired of your party's incessant hatred and negativity...I don't see answers from the GOP!

Well ain't that the pot calling the skillet!!

Has anyone considered the possibility that the CIA does not alway report the fact and that they are above lying or misleading the public and political officials. Newt is just another hypocrite who finds it easy to accuse or imply that someone is not truthful. He has already made up his mind w/o all the facts. And beside why are we riding Nancy Pelosi. Where is Newt's outrage concerning the actual use of torture by the Bush administration. We all seem to have forgotten who the real culprits are!

And Gingrich, who wasn't in any poisiton to know is a paragon of truthfulness. This is just politics. If they want an imnvestigation, then everything-Bush, Cheney, and the CIA under oath with a special prosecutor. I don't think the Rethugigans want that to happen.

And isn't there a retired Senator who has already had the CIA admit that the dates the CIA cited for briefings are wrong. What the hell is is going on?

As much as I hate to be on the same side as Newt Gingrich, I do partially agree with him. Every single member of Congress was briefed on what the military and CIA was doing. The Democrats essentially waited until the news hit the public before they acted. Now don't get me wrong, I'm fairly sure that the Bush administration didn't tell Congress absolutely everything, but they were essentially given more than enough information to be able to object if they chose to do so.

No one care want you think. You are a wore out has been who was dump by your own party.

C'mon. The CIA is in the business of lying. That's what they do. Why is it so hard to grasp that the CIA lied to Congress? Insanity.

And this ethical wisdom comes from the guy who was having an affair on his second wife while impeaching President Clint for his indiscretions while he was in the White House.

Newt has zero credibility to demand anything.

Did anyone miss Newt Gingrich when he was living under a rock?

It they can censure Pelosi for lying does that mean we can jail Bush and Cheney for lying?

Newt "Bomb Thrower" Gingrich needs to be ignored for a while. The righties scream when any Dem talks after office (Google "Al Gore") and yet Newt (Cheney, Delay, etc.) are on the Sunday Mourning Talking Head shows spouting venom. Why does he even have a soapbox?

Newt needs to win an election before he regains any platform. The man left his second wife while she's being treated for cancer to shack up with his now-third wife and even calls himself a Catholic. Wow.

If you remove all the superlative adjectives and adverbs, Newt is saying "She said it was okay to Torture, SEE!!!"

More repub smoke-screen to hide their buddy Dick doing down in flames.

Oh, the irony of it all!!!!! Imagine, Newt accusing Nancy of lying and demanding an investigation!!!!!!

I think this is all smoke and mirrors, specifically designed to detract the attention away from the real criminals, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Gonzales. Let's investigate them, Mr. Gingrich. What a major hypocrite!!!!!! He should have a conversation with Barry Goldwater about the CIA lying.

First of all newt is a piece of crap lier himself ,how dare that cheating piece of scum come on anything and give any kind of wight or wrong view .he carries about as much weight as charles manson on any subject of lieing cheating or marality ,Find a more credible source for imformation ,and newt shut the h==l up !!!

"She shifted her criticism from the CIA to the Bush administration." This woman is a liar, and she got caught. Step down from that pedestal of "I can do no wrong" Ms. Pelosi. I believe the ranking Democrat Majority leader of the House has already hinted at an investigation, which anyone with a pulse in this country should welcome. Ding dong the witch is dead.

Newtie forgets he is no longer a member of the House, the Republicans lost, and he has no voice in there, nor a leg to stand on. He can gripe all he wants, but he has no right to oust Pelosi.

Someone who has lied as much as Gingrich should be careful about calling for action against anyone. I guess Gingrich feels he must act because he belongs to the "party of family values". If you thing the lizard has any values, just ask his former wives.

It is time for Gingrich the fool to shut up. No one wants to listen to his tired inflamatory rhetoric. Shut up, Newt!!!

Buh-bye Nancy, you raging lunatic.

This is what happens when dumbocrats are elected into power.

Newt Gingrich should be the last man anyone would wants to listen too.

This man has no creditability
- No moral values, unethical
- He was a subject of ethics investigation, eventually charges of hypocrisy and unethical behavior over a $4.5 million book advance, was the beginning of his political end
- Highly polarizing figure
- Divorce his first wife while she was in the hospital with cancer (what kind of a human being would do that to his own's wife)
- Having an affair, cheated on his wife while he was doing the impeachment dance against Bill Clinton (how pathetic was that)
- Partisan figure, old-school republicans

If there is a transcript, and if it conclusively shows that she has lied, then it should be released in redacted form, and this insufferable woman should be deposed. She is probably the main reason why Congress has done nothing of significance since their "mandate" in November 2006.

Sorry........Gingrich

Hmmm. Would that have been the CIA of the Bush administration?? With Dick Cheney (former CIA guy) lurking in the background? Naaa. They wouldn't tell a lie.

I don't like you Pelosi, but right is right and wrong is wrong. I believe you on this one.

Sorry........Gingirch

what is newt trying to prove.
his hands are not clean.
they are just trying to muddy the waters to divert attention from other more important things.

You can't make this stuff up. Liberals paying attention to what a discredited conservative christian/former house speaker denouncing the discredited sitting speaker who is a whack lib.
Can't we please have some adults represent us? Maybe someone who is able to put the interests of their constituents in front of their need for personal power and greed?

Who is Gingrich to spell this out? He is a hypocritical phillanderer who enabled the criminal Bush enterprise. Stop wasting public space on mendicants like him.

Now we have a loudmouthed loser speaking for the Republican Party to join his entertainer friend Rash. Let's have a Congressional investigation of the whole torture saga from beginning to end, exempting no one, not even our ex-President, to get to the bottom of this. Hint: Nancy Pelosi was not responsible for getting us into the disastrous Iraq War, and she was not responsible for any of the un-American activities associated with it. Let's keep our eye on the ball on this one. These clowns are trying to distract from the crimes commited to the fallout from those crimes.

Does Genrich really want to open this door? There seems to be a majority opinion and significant evidence that there was lying and hiding of the truth during the George Bush years. President Obama has rightly indicated his desire to look forward. Republicans appear to be nothing but obstructionists not trying to solve problems but only looking to 2010.

After giving Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld a pass with lies that sent this country to an unjust war, CNN has chosen to focus on the Speaker rather than their criminal friends. What a fuss! No wonble Cable networks are imploding. You have completely lost your sense of purpose. It is Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld you should be focussing on, unless you are embarrased of your own failures...

Newt,

How about impeaching Bill Clinton again. You'd be in your has-been glory. Start thinking about bringing criminal charges against Bush/Cheney. Compare what they did to what you impeached Clinton for. Your judgment and priorities show how you and your outvoted party are grasping at straws creating false issues, again.

Start doing something positive.

Hopefully she'll be censured and then voted out of office.

Good riddance.

Oh, Newt, you have better things to do. Pelosi may have overstepped when she said they lied to her, but they were not making forthcoming briefings of congress. Florida's former senator Graham, who keeps copious records, agrees that they were not told about the use of torture.

CNN,

Do you ever get tired of burying the truth? Your "news organization" is losing respect and you are weakening yourself by reporting only half the truth most of the time.

It's funny how the main stream media is carring this story. If you read the New York Times, you can find it buried deep within the paper when it should be front page news. I figured that given the loud outrage by the bleeding heart liberals in regards to torture, we would hear a cry to have the FEMALE DOG forced from office. But no, they seem content with the knowledge that she lied to them. Just another Lefty Liberal day at the office.

CNN, what is your obsession with Newt Gingrich? The man helped run the country into the ground when he held some power, and now he likes to spout his mouth off despite having nothing worthwhile to say and no qualifications for saying it. I'm heading over to MSNBC, where they focus more on actual news!

She's a disgrace.

he said/she said...i'm so tired of this. i don't care if queen/saint nan knew about the "torture". so we mistreated a few terrorists...hahaha
the whole thing's hilarious to me that she can't just say "yeah, i knew about it". now, can we please move on and do things that are actually beneficial to the country?

Gee... if we're gonna censure Pelosi we should censure everyone that was briefed. It's amazing in a couple years we've gone from "We don't torture" to "We torture but they didn't try to stop us". If Pelosi, whom I'm not the biggest fan of mind you, gets censured then Bush, Cheney and all should be in prison on war crimes charges eh? Either the waterboarding was criminal and they should be in prison or it wasn't a crime and it doesn't really matter what Pelosi knew or didn't know.

Not that I agree with Gingrich on much nor that I really have much like for Pelosi, this may be a turning point in her career. I have read some articles on this and it seems Pelosi may have lied. As with most things Washington, there are a lot of facts and almost facts and lies that come out. This is looking bad for Pelosi.

Keep up the heat, Newt. This lady needs to stand down. It's unlikely that the leftists in San Fran will vote her out, so censure is the next best option.

Gingrich is the most toxic person ever to have served as speaker of the house. He will never stop. Regardless of what happens in Obama's term, he will accuse, malign, exaggerate and be mean as much as he can and as often he can. This coming from the hypocrite who was cheating on his wife while he was leading the impeachment efforts aimed at Clinton for messing around with Monica.

Why do people find it so impossible that the CIA could mislead congress? After all, Bush and Cheney misled them into believing that

a) torture would yield actual intelligence as opposed to false confessions, and was being used for that purpose, when in fact they wanted false confessions that would tie Al-Qaeda to Iraq.

b) That false confessions were accurate intelligence, that there was a threat from Iraq and that we weren't just going in there because Sadaam Hussein was a threat to our oil supply.

If she lied? The only question is can they prove she lied.

I doubt that the liar in chief will permit her to be ousted.

Remember, under Newt's leadership in 1996 the GOP increased pork barrel spending thirty times. Neither Newt nor Nancy should be involved questioning the other's ethics.

Why are we treating this guy as anything but a commentator for FoxNews? Why is that news on anything but FoxNews?

"'She is a trivial politician, viciously using partisanship for the narrowest of purposes, and she dishonors the Congress by her behavior,' Gingrich also said in the blistering interview."

I've never cared for Pelosi and Gingrich may or may not be right about her. What I DO know is Gingrich's characterization of Pelosi fits himself perfectly. Gingrich did our country a grave injury when he got involved in politics–he's one of the dirtiest and most dishonest politicians our country has seen, and that's saying something.

That hypocrite has some nerve criticizing Pelosi.

He lied under oath when he was Speaker of the House and gave his dying wife divorce papers on her deathbed. Apparently he likes having more stones thrown at his glass house.

LOL!!! really??? MORE?? I love reading what the repubs are screaming. like observing someone without wit, without validation, without mental faculties intact.... pure entertainment!! Keep it comin'!

this is all an non-issue. a ruse by the conservofascist neo-cons to deflect attention away from the real issue.

the real issue is that waterboarding is illegal and the bush administration is guilty of a war crime.

if ms. pelosi receives any punishment regarding this issue, then bush, cheney, rice, and hayden should go to jail over it.

I am sure with the misleading that was going on and that followed these briefings that Pelosi was indeed mislead about what they were doing and about the legality of what they were doing. The CIA did not disclose to our leaders that there was this torture method that had been outlawed since the Spanish American war and that they had decided to use it on suspects now to try to get false and planted information that would validate an unprovoked attack on Iraq.

This however does not excuse the Speaker of the House from the responsibility of reading between the lines, circumspect thinking, and the small amount of digging that would have been required to ferret out the truth of what was happening. After all unbriefed reporters and average Americans were soon up to snuff on the truth of what was happening. She could have insisted upon a full report from the International Red Cross as to what actually was happening or as to what they thought of the Bush/Chaney theory of what the international law was. America requires each and every law maker to find themselves fully informed on every issue before them and all its nuances or they can not represent their constituency.

I'm not a big fan of Speaker Pelosi but given the track record of the CIA and especially the Bush administration, I would guess there's a pretty good chance that she's the one telling the truth. Who knows? The one thing I'm absolutely certain about is that Newt Gingrich doesn't have the slightest moral right to be talking about this.

FYI: Newt get off the stage old man! Pelosi haven't done anything; VP Cheney should be on trial for war crimes and manipulate his authority of VP during 2001-2008.

Gingrich is NOT IN OFFICE!!!! Neither is Cheney! How about until tehy are ELECTED to office they shut the F up!

Shut up Newt. Just die already.

Why is CNN following his every statement? Who cares what he says. He is not in Congress anymore so what he says is irrelevant. He is just another loudmouth looking for a camera and CNN is always there.

Where were all these republicans when Bush Lied? Did we hear from them then.....this is just something for the Republicans to keep bringing up day after day to try to take the heat off of them and their DO NOTHING for AMERICA , their DO NOTHING for AMERCAINS, keep the heat on Relosi and maybe that will keep the eyes of america off of Chaney, Limbaugh, Palin and all the other crap the GOP stands for

newt is a crack pot

Na, na, na, na. Na, na, na, na. Eh, hey, hey. Goodbye!

Go back to San Francisco. Please!

If anybody ever looked like they were lying it was Nancy. You didn't have to be an expert in body language to read that performance. And this lady is 3rd in line for the presidency? Then again, contemplate who's 2nd.

The question is not if Nancy Pelosi lied but if the CIA tortured people. Mr. Cheney said they did. This is not only a federal crime but an iternational crime. So lets have an investigation of everything including Mr. Cheney Guilty Plea and get on with his imprisonment. If we don't want to imprison him lets turn him and all the torturers over to the international courts. It does not matter what Mrs. Pelosi knew It only matters what that adminstartion did.

Gingrich: Pelosi should be ousted as House speaker if she lied

Well Gingrich, what should happen to the Bush adm since they LIED, I REPEAT LIED, us into war which caused hundreds of thousands of
MURDERS. This is not an opinion, we have legal documents that prove it. Stop talking about Pelosi and do the right thing for our nation. Try these Bush people for murder!

Newt Gingrich needs to keep his mouth shut. The republicans know how to blame the torture on the Demorcates so they won't have to take the blame. They are very rotten to the core and they know how to lie real good.I can't wait until the next election so we can vote more of them out office. The republicans do not care about the poor people or the middle class.

Newt's comments might mean more if someone other than him were saying them. He has been a spoiled brat ever he stepped down from Congress.

Ehhhh, remind me again, who is Gingrich?

If the Speaker of the House lied and it is proven and the Congress takes action against her we should accept the discpline they give her. I say this because just as there are many that would like to see former President Bush sent to prison for life, there are many that would love to see the same for Speaker Pelosi. Neither would be right because neither of these people has been charged with violating any criminal laws or Federal laws, much less placed on trial and or convicted of any such violations.

They never held you to that standard, Newt!

You're a mean one Mr. Newt.

It is amazing how all these angry old has beens will not get off the stage and allow the adult to govern now. CIA did lie because they were completely under the control of Cheney, the Right wing repurgs party , and were totally corrupt by these folks during that time. Nancy Pelosi is spot on which has been back-up by Bob Graham's merticulous record taking. Panneda is right as well because the washed and rinsed books by the CIA show exactly what Dick Cheney intend for them to say because this gang set this entire thing up from day one with a sabotage clause for the Demo party. This is why Dick Cheney has been on the CNN and FOX speaking tour because they intended to make it seem like Demos and Repurgs leaders alike went along with torture as their back-up plan. Cheney used the CIA to set-up a defeat of any opposition to their torture policy and used a bate-N-switch mentality of delivering information to congress.

If you are a Republican you should want her to stay and if you are a Democrat you should want her to go. She is the Democrats worst nightmare.

Newt,
The GOP was in power. Your party sent America down the path of torture. Why do you like to put this country into a spin? Didn't you cause the government shut down in the mid 90's? DIdn't you start the Clinton impeachment...a lot of time and money wasted.. why oh why should anyone listen to you? You no different then the former VP bitter and angry.

We don't care to hear it anymore.

Please just stop.

What's more important is who ordered it in the first place? Seems that the GOP wants to foist the blame on Pelosi. This is a joke, right?

This is true, if it is found that Pelosi was untruthful and trying to cover it up, actions should be taken against her. What I don't understand is why Gingrich and the other Republican critics are so fiercely firing off against Pelosi and not against Bush and Cheney? You're right she is number 3 in line for the presidency, but hello, what about the President and Vice President of the time????

She has to be lying, she told too many versions of the 'story'. Let's clean out dc of all these lying corrupt evil porkulus politicians (both parties). Of course, that would only leave 1 or 2 politcians none of which would be obama. He has lied about EVERY campaign promise he made.

Well, if anyone should recognize an unethical, morally compromised liar, Mr. Ethics Violations himself, Newt Gingrich, should be able to.

But then, why should any of us give any credibility to an unethical, morally compromised liar, not to mention he's a serial adulterer who wanted Clinton impeached for lying about cheating on his wife..

Seriously, is this the best that the so-called "values" party can come up with, Newt Gingrich?

Hey, GOP, just because someone is less corrupted than Rush Limbaugh does not make him a good or moral choice as a spokesman for your latest faux temper tantrum.

The world is undoubtedly watching how we treat those individuals who are responsible for what amounted to torture. Years ago, in the Nuernberg Trials we – America – treat those individuals responsibles responsible for torture with distain and demanded accountability.
Is it time for President Obama to appoint a Special Prosecutor to get to the bottom of this torture? The individuals responsible for this torture should be held accountable for their actions – be they residents of the White House or lower ranked individuals. Americans demanded action in World War II, should we put the same requirements on modern individuals.
I would hate to be a soldier in a military action that was captured and tortured as we have tortured others recently. All because some leaders of the country decided that they could redefine certain actions such as torture.
The integrity of the Congress has been compromised by the actions of the Speaker and she should be held accountable as President Clinton was held accountable for his untrue statements, IF so found by an Independant Prosecutor.

Lied about what Newt?? Waterboarding is TORTURE! And YOU said the USA doesn't torture. You know Newt...that would mean the USA is now no better than the Taliban Reagan financed with OUR TAXES. Remember TAXES NEWT??..the thing your Party wants lowered on the RICH. You Conservatives are the ENEMY of Civilization.

Okay Newt, it's time for an investigation into the whole torture issue with charges liable for the people who broke the law, namely bushie and his buddy "The dick" cheney as well as their ace legal team that issued advice saying waterboarding was okay.

The criminals who authorized torture are the ones who need to be punished. This is classic repulsivecan misdirection. When Nancy Pelosi new about some CIA brief (that she probably couldn't discuss in public anyway) aren't the issue.

And, Gingrich is who? And, I would care what he says, why?

Dear Newt...good luck on your righteous cause to get the torture issue settled. You set the groundwork for former President Bush, VP Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales and the lawyer Yoo to be charged for war crimes, extradited, and tried at the Hague International Court of Justice. Yes Newt, lets lance this boil of lies and complicity on torture, extreme rendition, and secret international sites wherein we demonstrated to the world our ability to be as depraved as our enemies.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Whether she lied or not she doesn't need Gingrich jumping down her throat. It obvious he is trying to gain a little on this. However, I don't want to paint Pelosi as "clad-in-gold" either. She is clearly the epitome of bipartisanship and just watching her act around Pres. Obama makes me sick. I would love to see her replaced. I don't care if it's another Democrat, I really just don't like her.

These politicians were all aware of what was going on. After the twin towers, the pentagon, theflight in Penslyvania, and the anthrax letters who can blame the. They all thought President Bush included, something much more sinister was around the corner. Will we ever know?

Who better to talk about misconduct by a Speaker of the House than the King of Misconduct – Newt Gingrich. This individual of despicable mores was driven from the Speaker's post – and the House of Representatives – because of profound arrogance and power-mongering.

I believe the "glass houses and stones" applies very nicely here, don't you?

Mr. Gingrich – cierre la boca y váyase. Ya ha purgado su carrera política por el inodoro. Usted es irrelevante.

Right, Newt, but by all means, IGNORE the people who ordered it and carried it out. ALL of them KNEW that it was illegal, at least if they were raised in this country, they did, but they did it anyway.

Quit the obfuscation, you adulterer. Why aren't you out there calling for the prosecutions of those who DID the law breaking? I'll tell you why: Because you are a HYPOCRITE. Now go away and quit bothering us while we try and get those CURRENTLY in power to live up to their obligations.

You are a disgrace. You helped to set the stage for this, and now you want to blame someone ELSE for it? You hypocrite. Either call for the prosecutions of those who BROKE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, or just go away and never darken the doorway to this country again.

I do wonder why it is that the civilized world puts up with Gingrich and his lot. I also wonder why it was that he didn't demand Bush's resignation after the lies, lies, lies, ad infinit-administratum in re Iraq, torture, eavesdropping, willful and planned constitutional abrogation etc. etc. were revealed. Maybe only people who crap on their first two wives, then marry a third and convert to Catholicism can understand. I'm not one of those. Thank all whatevers.

I am certainly not a Pelosi fan, but Gingrich is really starting to get on my nerves. He's being obnoxious... he needs to shut up and let investigators take care of it. Spewing out criticism and continuously attacking her isn't going to help. Republicans whine when Democrats attack them yet they act the same way? I suppose that's politics. And I'm not a Dem, I'm an independant... making this observation from the neutral middle.

I knew it was only a matter of time before Pelosi got herself in hot water, though. I knew it was coming.

Are ANY (read: any) of the new O'Socialists ethical or honest?
This is not quite the kind of change the country needed or wanted.

Even Chavez is embarassed by his new Comrades.

Gingrich is concerned that the third person in line to be president lied and therefore should be censured. Why wasn't he concerned during the previous eight years of continual lying? Seems more than a little bit hypocritical.

umm isn't this the same guy who was found guilty of lying to Congress and still served. Wow Newt, are you that hypocritical!

Is it really a story what a documented liar and disgraced politician thinks?

Sadly Pelosi has changed her story too many times, making us wonder what is she hiding?

Why doesn't Gingrich just fade from the scene again. He didn't have much to say about about the lies and shenanigans of the Bush/Cheney administration, so he should just shut up now.

CNN is depending on Newt Gingrich to drive the actions of congress, I hope not.
Questioning is a good move, but not just to satisfy Gingrich or any one looking for a fight.

I wonder if the jet she has to buy for herself now will be big enough!

She needs to go! Such a devisive politician does not fit into the Democratic profile of a new bipartisan administration.

Hey Newt who gives a hoot what you think.

Newt, I wonder if Bush in fact lied about Mission Accomplished? I wonder if he in fact lied about W.M.D.? I wonder if he lied about how great our economy was right before the crash? I wonder if he lied about how great of a job his buddy Brownie was doing? In fact, I wonder if he or you even know what the meaning of the word Truth is?

I don't care for Newt Gengrich one bit. But I do get the feeling the Pelosi isn't telling the whole story. If she isn't telling the whole truth about these briefings and what she knew at the time, then she's an ENORMOUS hypocrite who deserves to be horse whipped and jailed, just like every other member of the Bush administration responsible for trying to make torture "legal" under U.S. Law.

If, during Confession, I was told that someone committed a crime, then I am the one who should pay the price, not the wrong doers?

Where was Newt and all the others when George Bush and Dick Cheney was hell bent on attacking Iraq. What's more important to discuss is the great lie they told in order to invade a nation that did not attack us.

Newt should shut up as his days are long gone; the policies he instituted has helped to drag down this nation and he is one of the many shameless Americans who sees things ONLY for self worth.

Newt the neutered ?
This guy is trying to claim the moral high ground. The same guy who served his dying wife divorce papers? The republikans are well past being knee deep in do-do, if they throw their lot in with this loser!

Newt the right to say whatever he wants. I just don't understand why the media is giving him a platform to say. The guy has no role. He's not an elected official. He's just some has been that media is helping become relevant.

Depending on the circumstances of the lying, I do think that she should be removed. Even Nancy Pelosi can agree to that. If she didn't lie, she has nothing to worry about, and would support a statement like that. Let's see what she says....

After the Bush Administration is in prison for willfully violating American and International law. We can start listening to slimy wife cheating dirtbags like Newt.

Desperate Newt? Your party is falling apart. Surprised you are playing the righteous one with the skeletons in your closet.

everyboby now knows what a "sleeze bag" pelosi really is. she lies, probably cheats and steals as well. she is making obama look bad....she needs to go and i believe her democratic counterparts will see to it that that happens. the sooner the better for this country. someone in this position...third in line to the presidency needs to be honest and stable know matter what party they belong too. this lady is none of these.

How can you tell Pelosi is lying? Her lips are moving?

She is one of the most dangerous politicians in American history and if given her way, will destroy our way of life in favor of some idiotic idealistic notion of how things should be based on the context of the extreme far left of her extreme far left district. By her choice, we would be the 21st arrondissement of Paris.

This latest scheme of lying about what she was told about waterboarding isn't going to be her final undoing. But, pile on a few more like this and her own caucus will toss her out. Can't be soon enough.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Newt. Historically, the CIA has been involved in numerous activities that would make a sailor blush, but thanks to Cheney, and now Newter, there will be an investigation that will further damage the Bush white house. Way go go you moron.

Can you say "Red Herring"?

Newt's opinion is very relevant here, being that he's a respected member of Congress.

Oh, wait.

Bill Clinton smoked marijuana and had sex with an intern. Barack Obama smoked crack. Pelosi lies about the the CIA briefings. They are all a perfect fit for a cancerous government that is ruining our beautiful country that has lost respect for itself and its people. Their is no shame in what they will say or do to get themselves elected in today's political arena, they are all liars thieves and cowards.

Tell me again how a disgraced ex leader of the house who was ousted himself is going to censure the current leader ? Gingrich was a joke then and is still a joke. The GOP has to spin this to take the heat off of their party. Remember the party that tortured the individuals in question. Bush, Cheney and others were the persons responsible for this not Pelosi or the DEMS. Yes Pelosi may have knew about it, but honestly what could or would she have done. At that time she was in the minority and worked her way into the majority. GOP, Obama wants to drop this mess yet you all seem to want it open to disgrace DEMS and win back any honor they once had. GOP shut up let this go away for a long vacation, and take Cheney with you

Unbelievable – up until now the Republicans were saying that people who actually ordered torture (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld) should not even be investigated, but Pelosi who was merely complicit should be censured! Where was Newt when Bush LIED America into the Iraq war and then blamed the CIA for "bad intelligence"? Pelosi gets what she deserves – her spineless, politically opportunistic aiding and abetting of Bush-Cheney's war crimes has come back to haunt her.

Obama, I think it's time to now do what the GOP is (unwittingly) asking: appoint a special prosecutor and charge anyone who either ordered, performed, or was complicit in torture! Long live the rule of law!

Oh I see, the Republican idiots who actually commissioned the crime get off scott free but Pelosi should be held fully accountable for letting them walk all over her? Yup, Republican login for the 20th century... too bad it's 2009.

I agree with Newt but then we should go after Bush and Cheney about their lies.

Pelossi should keep her mouth shut.Every time she speaks a lie comes out. Being an ex californian i know her well.Her approval rating in her own districy which is almost all democrats is in the 30's which tells you something. Being 3rd. in line for president, lets hope Barama and Biden stay healthy.

Give her the boot!!!

If the GOP wants to open this can of worms, I say go for it. It will be best for the Democratic party...they disgrace the GOP more and they get rid of Pelosi...a win-win solution.

Wow –the Bush CIA lied to a member of Congress (a member who was in the Minority at the time and could not affect policy under any circumstances) and now The Gingrich (who divorced his wife while she was suffering from cancer) is upset.

The failed policies of the conservative movement's architect should shut his mouth and go back to being a lousy college professor.

For God's sakes, WHY is Newt Gingrich even being given airtime by the media??? I can understand Fox News, Hannity, Limbaugh et al but legitimate main stream media shouldn't be wasting its (or OUR) time talking to this disgraced loser...

Well Well Newt

Just maybe we do need to clear the air. Let put all this out for WE intelligent Americans can see who is not telling the truth. Lets see George and Dick and the Republican Party squirm like the worms you are.

Warlock Newt,

You and Cheney should be ousted from the country if you continue running your mouths....Free speech stopped at the two of you....

These are the comments of a sleazy old white guy whose entire life is a lie=nDon't know if Nancy did or did not get the correct information – the CIA must produce a record of this conversatio she had with them. The most important piece of this is that we (the US) tortured and those authorized this must be tried. No matter what we do here Cheney, Bush, Rumsfield will be tried at the Hague and hopefully will be found guilty

I say oust her also if she lied.......and we all know that she is one of the BIGGEST LIARS. Goodbye Nancy, I can say I'm sorry to see you leave.
If it was anyone else, they would have already been gone

"Newt Gingrich claimed that Nancy Pelosi "defamed everyone" in the intelligence community and he can't "see how she can serve as speaker if it turns out that she has lied about national security both to the House and to the rest of the country.”"

That's interesting. I don't recall Newt Gingrich making the same statements when the Bush White House outed a CIA agent back in 2004.

Newt Gingrich – such a classless hypocrite!

Pelosi should resign immediately

Gingrich is a has been and really hasn't a clue about Pelosi or what transpired between her and the CIA. The CIA is trying to cover their butt. Gingrich, as well as the Cheney clan should shut up. They are out of the picture and really don't deserve the attention they are getting. Gingrich is probably still incensed because he was caught being a crook when he was speaker. Please make all these shills go away.

Hey Newt, I agree, lets have a full investigation of the whole torture affair and everybody involved. That would include Pelosi as well as Cheeney and Bush, and the legal counsels who said it was okay to use these techniques. Sorry Newt, you don't get to just investigate the Dems and not those who actually carried out the policy.

Does this twerp even hold elected office? Just another ousted Republican – an old, fat, white, windbag who should shut up and get over it.

You lost, and policy will change as a result of it.

Please stop giving this man a microphone to tear down Pelosi. He is so
useless and irrelevant. Besides, whatever Pelosi knew doesn't really
matter at this time. What really matters to the American people are
jobs and healthcare! Pay more attention to the people rather than
your party and people outside of the republican party will listen. Other-
wise, go away and stay away.

Wow how perceptive of Newt. Go get Pelosi. He must have slept through the last eight years when Bush/Cheney were turning the Constitution upside down and every which way to Sunday. He certainly has good timing though. The Republicans led by Limbaugh/Palin (nice ring to it, don't ya think?) have been in a fast meltdown attempting to discredit a real sitting President and a working team. If Nancy knew about waterboarding then it must have meant they were doing it. Bring in those two outlaws Bush/Cheney and the horses they rode in on. Let's see what they have to say and let the horse chips fall where they may.

Bush, Cheney & Rove should be jailed if they lied (which we all know they did). Their lies killed American soldiers and countless innocent civilians. Bring it on Gingrich, if it's blame and punishment you want, then there is pleny to go around for neo-con conservatives..........

.LET THE BUSH, CHENEY ,ROVE TRIALS BEGIN !!!!!!

Assuming that Pelosi was told everything. Then she was told that waterboardind had already happen and that it was legal to do so.
Case closed.
But assume that the briefers didn't tell everything. Why? Because they
suspected that the CIA action was illegal and didn't want to incriminate the CIA.
The two bad guys were waterboarded aound 300 times. This was during one month. That is over five times a day! Can't be too effective as a method of intergation.
Gingrich is a nasty old white man. Must be a Republican.
How does he talk when he was having an affair during his effort against Clinton.

Is he kidding, coming from a corrupt Republican, how in the world can they even say anything about Pelosi. Even if she knew, if she would 've said something, the Rethugs would've called her ANTI-American, smeared her and named her some of anything you can come up with. For 8yrs the Bush/Chaney Admin. did what they wanted to. Rove was the evil one and Chaney would've rubbed her out.

We Already knew she was dumb, But even the Great Pelosi can't stay out of her own way. Keep it up Nancy your on your way home. The sooner the better.

Mr. Gingrich should keep up his fight to have a full investigation into the torture issue. Obviously Mrs. Pelosi's part in this is just a drop in the bucket. The commission should look into what everyone knew and when, what the Republicans knew that they didn't tell the Democrats in Congress, who thought up and OK'd the tortures, who gave permission for the lawyers to over ride the Geneva Convention rules and write new laws to allow torture, why Pres. Bush said on camera that they didn't torture when all of this was going on and so much more. Mr. Gingrich, you may get what you wish for but it will open up a Pandora's box and the fallout could be charges of war crilmes against some of your own. Now that will be very interesting.

you know, if pelosi is going to be investigated, then why not the entire bush administration for the very things that she is being accused of, she may be third in line to the president, BUT do you really think the republicans will tell the truth anyhow? i mean COME ON....they have tried to do everything in their power to point the finger at key dems, yet they will not be responsible for the actions that they pursued for their own agenda? as time magazine said....endangered species....with the republican elephant on it. do they really think that this kind of hullabaloo is going to get them back on track? highly doubtful...

This is not what he said on the Sean Hampster's radio show because then he actually did call her a liar and someone who should resign. I guess he understands now that you must be careful with your words because they do mean something.

I agree with Gingrich. She should be removed. Shs is hurting the Obama Adm. In my opinion she is becoming a real embarrassment to our country and dangerous for our security.

Thank you for listening.

Donna

This fat little wife-cheating imp has got some big cajones. Hey, he thinks its OK to torture but if you have a disagreement with these CIA torturers then you should be censored. Very logical Newt. You said torture is AOK. So why do you care if Pelosi heard (or probably didn't hear) about it 7 years ago. Let's be a little consistent you twit. And besides, who believes these CIA clowns anyway. I totally believe that some of these agents would deliberately mislead the democrats, especially back in the Bush years. Are we supposed to believe that these guys are above reproach. This is their tactic to keep Obama off their backs. As far as I'm concerned, as many others, these CIA and contractor sadists should be charged and tried for embarrassing our country by resorting to these insane tactics. And while we're at it throw Cheney the Penguin, Rumsfeld and Condoleeza the liar in jail for lying about getting into Iraq and lying about torture. What a group of cretins!

Lets see: Pelosi wants an independant investigation, and release of the transcript of the CIA briefing. Her critics want a p[olitical investigation and Newt want's to skip right to censure. We don't know who is telling the truth, but Pelosi's positions on how to resolve it are LESS political and MORE likely to reveal the truth than her opponents' positions. I think I'll give her the benefit of the doubt until evidence to the contrary is in.

Newt's outrage over Pelosi accusing the CIA of lying or misleading her sound remarkably like Joe McCarthy's outrage when the 'good name' of his investigators was besmirched – this after years and years in which McCarthy engaged in wholesale destruction of people's reputations. That little act of outrage was the death knell of McCarthyism.

Considering the 8 years of Bush, Cheney and company lying or misleading the American people, maybe we will look back on Newt's outrage as the death knell of the Republican brand of conservatism.

Gee......is it such a stretch to think an agency (CIA) that lies and misleads as a course of business, attempts to and succeeds in killing foreign leaders and topples goverments, would be lying about Pelosi?
If what they say is true, release the minutesof the meeting, that simple. The fact that hasn't happened lets us know they are once again lying. Seems like just yesterday they denied secret prisons even existed........we now know that was B.S. too.

So Pelosi would be punished but not Dubya, Rove, Cheney, Gonzalez, and Rumsfield? What a hypocritical party the GOP is.

Democrat Team Pelosi is proof positive that it does not matter which party -Republican or Democrat- is in power that neither can claim high moral political superiority over the other. It is really too bad there is not a real viable third choice political party for voters in the USA.

Here we go again Repubs trying to deflect blame from themselves with smoke and mirrors and a load of crap!!!!They ran the country for eight years but somehow all our problems are to be blamed on the Democrats! This is why you will lose more seats come next election!

Didn't Newt serve his wife divorce papers when she was in the hospital recovering from cancer? Mr. "Family Values" is part of the ultra-conservative branch of the Republicans that people no longer subscribe to. Perhaps he should hold Bush and Cheney responsible for war crimes if he;s so bent on continuing to offer nothing except annoyances. Newt is like a mosquito in your ear, irritating but ultimately insignificant.

Is anyone else dying from the irony of Newt Gingrich complaining about Pelosi's ethics as Speaker when he was forced to resign not only as Speaker but from Congress altogether because of multiple ethics violations?

And why do all these artricles about his attacks on Pelosi forget to mention that salient fact?

Unbelievable. Sure, she may have some culpability, and should be held to it. But, if you listened to the hearings, senators get classified information and they are supposed to not say anything about it. That can't be turned around and be viewed as agreeing to what the administration decided to do.

The bottom line is that Bush/Cheney ordered torture in order to find a non-existent link between al Qaeda and Iraq. That was immoral and illegal.

This is not a partisan issue. Anyone complicit should be censured, but the people who ordered America to torture must go to jail.

Queen Pelosi strikes again. This woman is perhaps the worst thing that has ever happened to this country. She is so far off the deep end that she thought that she SO important that she traveled to the Middle East to have meetings with terrorist leaders of countries. Sit down, Ms. Pelosi. And for the first time in your life, SHUT YOUR MOUTH.

Shut up newt.

I'm Californian, born and bred. Pelosi is doing fine. She's not perfect but nobody is perfect and she's working hard to help the President. You're not helping anyone except republicans who run the country into the ground.

BTW, why is Pelosi under fire when Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush illegaly thought up and authorized torture? Because she might have/might not have been told about it under an oath of secrecy? Jeez

This should be the final nail in Pelosi's coffin. I wish that we could put the Senate Majority Leader in with her.

Newt is an irrelevant bore.

Bush and his fellow conservatives lied our country into a war. They spent hundreds of billions of dollars of our tax dollars in Iraq. Their actions led to the deaths of over 100,000 people, many women and children. They tortured prisoners in our name.

Yet Nancy Pelosi is the issue? Go figure.

What in the world is wrong the the modern Republican Party?

I come from a family of dems. and I may agree with a lot of Pelosi policy positions but.. . . . She is a self-serving, 100% politician, willing to do, say, or sell out anything for personal power. She represents the WORST of the Democratic Party and if there is one thing we should have learned over the last thirty years it is that we need to get rid of the people who put themselves ahead of the country or our Constitution.

Pelosi should resign and I hope the good people of her district will give her the boot!!

Newt...maybe when you stand up and demand an investigation into Bush and Cheney we'll take you seriously! This little diversion tactic ain't going to work this time! PROJECT THIS!

Why does the news media give so much attention to a creature like Newt Gingrich? He left public life more than a decade ago rather than face public discussion of the scandal in his personal life, and he has not held office since then. I can understand why Fox News, which served as an unofficial ministry of propaganda for Bush and the Neo-Cons, would want to give him coverage. But why legitimate news organizations like CNN?

Newt Ginrich the womanizing has been should just retire to Florida and keep his questionable self serving mouth shut.

My nose is large and i am from wood.I am Newt Gingrich ,Please call me Pinocchio !

Newt is like that guy who goes to the funerals of servicemen and shouts that they are gay. Now what exactly was he kicked out of congress for? Who is he to demand anything? Oh, I get it, this is the NEW Republican party. And who exactly keeps handing him a microphone? He's the guy with the bullhorn at the teabag rally.

This is a clear case of Pelosi covering her own ass. The problem is that she thought cause she is the speaker that putting it on the CIA and off of her would work. No dice. Nancys gotta go!

With your past Newt maybe you should keep your mouth shut. With your contract against America to your hypicritcal slander of Bill Clinton while having a affair during the impeachment trial.

I suggest we censure CNN for giving Newt more air time in this slinging of dual hypocrasy. He, who became the epitome of Washington lying now crawls out from under his rock to help the Republican smokestorm after the previous White House broke the law. He, who has proved that he doesn't care about the USA's reputation in the world. He, who shows interest ONLY in issues that get him before cameras ... give me a break, CNN. You're quickly losing what credibility you have left for objective reporting.

Why would you oust her. The people accusing her were not even there or are republicans looking for a scapegoat. The CIA is known to not tell the truth. Get real people and punish the right people. Newt Ginrich is an idiot. What is he trying to hide by accusing her.

The GOP are trying to defuse the fact that Bush and Cheney lied to the American people, falsefully sent those kids to die for unjust war and tortured to tarnish the image of the America and they are trying to make everybody focus the heat on Pelosi. Pelosi may be lying but if Gingrich wants Pelosi ousted, fine, then lets try Bush and Cheney in a war crime tribunal and everyone who ordered the torture.... lets be fair. This GOP thinks everybody in America is stupid.

And what will happen to the CIA because they lied. This is certainly the more likely case. Nothing again

newt gingrich is a waste. He thinks he can be big time again but he's just old gop news. The gop has no new news. Theyre living in the past. It's ok tho-gingrich and his yap will help further disolve the gop sooner

Newt, Newt, Newt. If every member of congress who ever lied or "misspoke" had to step down, both chambers would be empty. That includes yourself, sir, back in the day.

Newt, it appears that you have something to prove? If she should be ousted for lying, then what do you suggest happen to those that made torture possible? After all, she is the one who wants a truth commission on this issue and the GOP only wants to reveal info that biasly shows that the "illegal" torture helped gather information "important information". WHATEVER! Newt, YOU lose.

Once again, Newt Gingrich is distracting America and the media from the real issue. Only now instead of Monica Lewinsky it's Nancy Pelosi. If Pelosi lied about what she knew, yes, that is wrong. But the Bush Administration AUTHORIZED TORTURE in the first place! That seems to be a MUCH bigger issue. Why are we being told by the Republicans to move on and not dwell in the past when we talk about prosecuting the people who ordered the torture to happen, when these same Republicans are turning around and demanding Pelosi be removed as Speaker for just knowing about it? Double standard much? Sure remove Pelosi from office if you want, but only if you send Bush and Cheney to a war crimes tribunal.

It might be a great idea for Newt to take a long and hard look at the damage he inflicted to the country when he was speaker of the house.
The fellow has no ethics and would be wise to stop making a fool of himself.

If she lied? She did. Repeatedly. Pelosi has put a gun to her own head and her game of Russian roulette with the CIA will undoubtedly result in her political demise.

Can someone remind me who had ordered the torture? The republikaners are solely responsible for this un-American behavior. Nancy Pelosi and the others who were told about this matter were compelled by law not to disclose that torture was being used or she would have been charged by the Bush regime. The Newt really thinks that all Americans are as ignorant as he is.

Who cares? The person who lied was BUSH AND CHENEY to all of us and the media helped THEM. THAT'S what should be investigated. And just where were all the whiny Republicans when Bush was pushing for war then torture???? Old Newt is just that, a pest. Why are we wasting time with Pelosi??? Because it's one of those sensational news stories? Or that the Republicans, once again, have nothing to do but whine and cry? I wouldn't doubt that all was not told to Congress, after all Bush and Cheney got whatever they wanted when they wanted it. Since when is Gingrich such a saint? This country has more pressing and serious issues that Pelosi...why didn't any Republicans stand up against Bush if they all knew so much????

If Pelosi should be ousted if she lied then Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the other Republicans who implemented the torture policy should be TRIED in our justice system. Newt, don't try and deflect attention away from the wrongdoing of your party. Nancy is not the culprit, your team was.

"I think the house has an absolute obligation to investigate whether or not the third ranking official, after all she is third in line to be president, whether or not that person can be allowed to lie about national security both to the country and to the House of Representatives, and I think that it's a very very serious charge."

You mean like when the FIRST and SECOND (GEORGE AND DICK) lied to congress and the nation about the country's security???? Is that what you mean Newt????

Pelosi never Lied.
Pelosi is not a Liar.

Suppose even if she lied, no body is harmed.

When Bush and Cheney Lied about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction:

1. 4200 US Troops Died.
2. 46000 US Troops got injured.
3. 100000 Iraqis got killed.
4. Billions of Dollars spent on War.

One problem – Newt. You're not relevant any more. Who care's what you think? Also, with all your ranting and raving over this, so you agree that this "torture" business is truly a serious issue that needs investigating?

Of all the people in the country to call out Pelosi, Gingrich is not the one.

The man was/is corrupt, a fool and, oh why bother, you get the idea.

If you are going to write about clowns, why not one of the funniest... Rush Limbaugh?

Gee didn't anyone tell Gingrich that he doesn't matter anymore, he no longer holds an elected position and therefore no longer speaks in an official capacity for any people?

Please send him the memo immediately and hopefully he will shut his BIG pie hole!!!!

Hey Newt! You ain't a lawmaker anymore, so sit your fat *%@ down and shut up! Who cares what YOU think should happen???? Why are all these former has-been repugs spewing out all this garbage, like they are sqeaky clean? And WHY on earth, is the news media even giving them a platform for their devisive and destructive comments? Suddenly, the democrats are all under a microscope...where was that piece of equipment when it was Newt, Dick(head), Georgie Boy and all the other repugnants, drove this country down the road to ruin???? This is becoming sickening. It reminds me of when i was playing sports as a kid. The losing team always had nothing but insults and slurs, after they got their butts kicked.

finger pointing from an IDIOT that lied about any and everything he has done

I remember in first grade we learned to not finger point and start learning to be an adult . Newt needs to crawl back under his rock and the media needs to shrug its shoulders and not listen to the idiot . he isn't news worthy or any of the other republican finger pointers
and if Nancy isn't telling everything then maybe she wasn't supposed to .national security
and Newt is in his own yapping, saying that the Bush adm. did use it and it really doesn't do anything but anger every civilized country in the world .. here we are trying to get other leaders of countries to not use torcher and we admit we use it .. kinda makes us look stupid ya think

but hey Newt the fruit can jibba jabba about anything he wants .. he does have the right under the constitution.. but come one its all about his personal agenda .. he puts it before the best intrest of the country..

again its all about the dark empior( Dickie Cheney) and darth vader . (Newt the fruit).against the jedi's ( every american that voted for a new government and the Obama adm.

Gary Davis
Harbor Oregon
what a great sunny day. here on the Oregon coast

Let me start by saying I am a huge supporter of the current administration and President Obama. Having said that, this issue concerning Nancy Pelosi should not be swept under the rug. The truth needs to come out, regardless if it has an impact on current matters. She is held to the same standard as President Obama and I agree with Mr. Gingrich that as third in line to take office, America needs to know if she is spinning tales.

It's obvious to me that she's been set-up, and that the Republicans are still playing games. They have nothing to offer the country, and they're sore loosers. They don't realize that the country is sick of these shenanigans, and that they are further alienating the public. Go ahead Republicans, continue along this course, and there will be no Republican party to speak of. They're going to have their hat handed to them come 2010.

Good, hopefully Speaker Pelosi will be ousted. Congress, D.C., and the country will be better off without such a ultra partisan politician in power. Speaker Pelosi, don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Gingrich??? Didn't he stepped down as a speaker of the house due to his illegal actions?
Go away you FAT hypocrite!!

Newt, I think that the House has an absolute obligation to completely ignore you, since you have no authority or say so in what they investigate. In that respect, you are just like.......the rest of us!

Why is this man still in the news? If there is some one whos opnion is more irrelevent that Rush or Cheney it is Newt.

Gingrich, you are the most ruthless and selfish partisan politician. Please stop turning the heat of republican administrative blunder over to Nancy Pelosi, the american public is too intellligent for your trick!

Just who is Gnute to demand anything?

His day in the sun has long since expired.

Gawd, what a buffoon.

This is ridiculous. Censure PELOSI because she LIED? And do nothing about those who made the policy and who continue to lie about it now? The sheer boldness and hypocrisy of Gingrich and the other Republicans is really amazing to me.

If they try to bring her down seriously, rather than just talking like this, they will be destroying their own! She wasn't even Speaker of the House at the time she was supposedly briefed. What about that guy? What about the legions of Republicans who formed the policies!? This makes no sense.

They are getting desperate and/or stupid now that they are out of power.

What a hypocritical POS Gingrich is. OK, Pelosi may have lied. She's not the one who authorized the torture in the first place. Gingrich need to jump off a cliff and save the country from having to listed to his crap.

And this is new because Newt says so? What a charlatan! Please... The repugs just want to sling mud so that our idiot press takes their eye off who's really guilty in this torture debate: the Bush administration. W. and Cheney should be in front of the Hague right now.

I hope this continues. I hope they create special investigators and prosecutors. I hope that Pelosi and Graham testify. What they'll find is that the Intelligence did lie, pushing forth manufactured memos from Cheney's or Feith's offices. We do know that they were pressuring Intelligence to gin up WMD proof (Gee, wonder why we don't talk about that anymore?). They were also probably trying to create a link between these crimes and Dem leadership, so that they'll not be the only guilty ones.

This is complete BS, and I hope we go down this road further. Bring on the investigations.

After the appalling irresponsibility of packing the latest budget with every bit of Liberal spend, spend, spend she could manage, Pelosi ought to be ousted regardless of the number of lies she's told.

Gingrich and the GOP don't get it. Partisanship just does not cut it. Let's move on and get focused on moving this country forward rather than some political agenda which stagnates country.

And WHEN did Newt Gingrich get any sort of credubility? His own tenure in the government was a DISGRACE to this country. Nose out Newt!

I despise both Pelosi and Gingrich....

Oh please, ousted for what? If he believes that then George Bush and Dick Cheney should be tried, convicted and put in jail for authorizing torture. Why should she be ousted since she had nothing to do with authorizing torture. Republicans make no sense at all on this matter. They want Nancy Pelosi held responsible for something she had no control over but they don't want those who actually made the decisions to be held accountable. Pitiful

Pelosi should be ousted for gross incopetence. Lying is a matter of standard operating procedures for her. She is a disgrace and if she were not a woman, she would already have been removed.

More democratic double-standards.

The order to waterboard prisoners came directly from the white house. Who cares whether Pelosi knew about it or not. Pelosi did not have the authority or power to stop it regardless. Just another legacy of the Bush/Cheney arrogance. The current administration has deemd waterboarding to be torture and has ordered it stopped. Enough said. Tell Newt Gingrinch and the rest of his republican buffoons to start woking on issues we americans care about such as the economy, health care, unemployment and such..We need to look to the future and not on the past mistakes. This finger pointing and blame game is exactly why the reublicans can't get anything accomplished and why they wer shellacked in the last election. wake up Newt, if you don't want to be part of the solution then get out of the way and make way for more forward thinking people. The last election should have been a wake up call to all of the GOP. Newt, you're starting to sound like rush Limbaugh and that ain't a good thing. Now go and gather your fellow republicans and do something good for the American people and stop wasting time on this dead issue.

Sure Newt, turn the tables. Demand a strong clear pressure on everyone, not just the one you want to loose her next election. What about your man Cheney and the rest of the lying lot? First the GOP said It was all a bunch of lies, than you used the justification that "it worked" . Now Nancy is the wrong doer? Come on, another peace of proof you do not have the countries best interest at heart and you are only concerned about party.
Say Nancy was informed, who was she going to tell the TOP secret info too? Cheney? What would that have accomplished? Bottom line, the buck stops at Cheney. How do you like that Newt? I don't even blame Bush anymore, he was simply a puppet that was used. I feel for him. I gain more and more respect for Bush now than ever for acting like an adult during this and not undermining Obama. . I did hate him, but now its confirmed he wasn't running the show. Sorry GWB! Can we investigate it all to get to the truth?

Common the real issue hear is where did those instructions to water board prisoners come from? When were they given. I think we should do as Pelosi suggests...release the briefings and we will see who goes down in flames NEWT! This is a partisan attack meant to distract America from the truth, Dick Cheney and George Bush along with a host of CIA members made this decision to undermine America they should all pay the price. If Pelosi is part of it so be it, but I think you will find the Republicans have consistantly taken "the ends justify the means" Approach to everything from invading Iraq to the current economic crisis!!!

WHO IS NEWT GINGRICH?

He's the pot calling the kettle black.

Republicans don't want to take responsibility for anything, but they should. If the American people have their way, eventually the entire Bush administration will be brought to justice.

Gingrich is trying to use smoke and mirrors to distract us from the real issue here–The Bush administration atrocities against the American people and the world.

The GOP and miscellaneous Republicans need to back off on Pelosi.
They are only doing themselves more harm, because it shows that they are attacking Democratic representation. The news media has covered the Waterboarding situation involving Pelosi quite extensively.
We are hearing that she is blaming the CIA, the Bush Administration and whoever else. We may not like her and believe she is a very good Speaker of the House, but this episode has to be evaluated properly, which could take time. If it involves court hearings, then they make the decisions as to the outcome – and not the GOP.

As the article states:

"Pelosi said the briefing she received from the CIA was incomplete and inaccurate, and she called on the CIA to release a full transcript of the briefing."

I concur. Let's see that full transcript! Enough allegations and innuendos; let the unambiguous and indisputable facts speak for themselves. There's nothing in those transcripts, that hasn't already been disclosed in one form or another; no national security secrets are going to be compromised by releasing the relevant portion of the briefing.

The GOP has been nothing but lies. I guess that's why they have all been ousted huh?!! Gingrich is the biggest fool!

And don't forget, ths is from a man (Gingrich) who lied at least 3 times to his former wives..!

BY Gingrich's standards Bush should have been impeached for lying, and Cheney should be in jail!

...OH – I forgot – the Repugnants have one standard for themselves, and another for the Democrats!

Hey Newt–Where were ya when your cronies in the GOP were lying to us about the need for a war that's killed thousands or worked at subverting our Constitution, or skulking about to reduce us to the level of dungeonmasters? Guess your Lie-O-Meter and sense of righteous indignation were somehow misplaced, huh?

I'll agree to ousting Pelosi if the Republicans will agree to having Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, Yoo, Rice, and Fleischer put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. What do you say, GOP? If there's nothing illegal and nothing to hide, then nobody has anything to be afraid of, right?

"Newt Gingrich continued his attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi... saying she "defamed everyone" in the intelligence community... "

Huh??? What about how the Cheney/W administration "defamed everyone" in our country????

"...and he can't "see how she can serve as speaker if it turns out that she has lied about national security both to the House and to the rest of the country.” "
An even bigger HUH????
What about how Cheney/W lied to us about going into Iraq????

They are at it again, trying to turn the focus away from the terrible things they have done to the rest of the world and to Americans!

Gingrich has been ousted by the American voters and he's very disgruntled...what a moron!

My god! I can't believe I'm about to say this, but here goes. Newt is absolutely...... correct (I almost typed right). Pelosi is a liar and should be impeached and convicted for misleading the public and making false statements on the record, you know like anyone else would be. Not to mention that she is absolutely insane. Drop this bull about torture, no body will ever go to jail so why bother, and we have more important things to do at this particular moment. But of course that's exactly what's going on, the constitution is being destroyed and US sovereignty is being eroded while obama and his lap dog congress try to get as much done before the voters put the repubs back in the majority in 2010. Provided of course that we still have a constitution which allows the citizens to vote in two years.

That's rich coming from Newt. Here's a guy driving a holier-than-though manic prosecution of Clinton for lying about an affair while at the same time ol' Newt is lustily banging his little bit on the side. It's time for him to crawl back under his rock. The country has outgrown him.

This gin or what do they call this man is just playing politics what about Bush and cheney that order the torture

I agree with Newt, let's investigate. After we're done investigating the Cheney administration for all of their lies first.

Well, since the GOP says 'enhanced interrogation' techniques were not torture, firing Pelosi if she lied about knowing about the waterboarding, is Newt saying waterboarding IS torture? Then that means EVERYBODY lied. Start printing the pink slips now.

The question is why the CIA only lie to Pelosi……

First it's Cheney now it's Gingrich, republicans have become the party of angry old men.

Obama, Pelosi, Reid, they should all be thrown out of office. Pelosi, because she is an idiot. Reid because he is hand in hand with Pelosi . Obama because he doesn't meet the Constitution's requriements to be president.
Obama is paying lawyers to hide his birth certificate. We know that fact because his lawyers answers to suits all over the country are public record. There’s nothing crazier than a President hiding his birth certificate. People need to know that fact.".
If he did meet the requirements then why keep 30 lawyers working on keeping the birth certificate AND his college records away from the public eye? What is he so afraid of???
The birth certificate he put on his web site during the primarys was fake and was soon gone from there.
How ironic he went to see Grandmother just when she was ready to open her mouth with the truth.
He will be found out and thrown into chains for what he has done to this country.
Oh yeah,,, a village in Kenya is missing it's idiot.

Interesting that Pelosi would not bring impeachment to the table. I suspect Bushco had this information ready.
Sad state of affairs

Does Gringrich realize that less than 2% of Americans actually give a darn what his or Cheney's opinions are? We are aware they are trying to change history and make thier contributions seem less criminal, but we are all aware they both abused the constitution of the united states almost to the point it was not worth the paper it was written on.

Why is it when Gingrich says something about Pelosi it is considered an 'attack,' but back when Democrats were bashing Gingrich from one end of the earth to the other, it was called 'upholding the Constitution?'

Nancy Pelosi has been polarizing and mean spirited at times, she holds oppinions and views that are much more liberal than most americans. The fact that she lied, that she knew about this torture and that she tried to blame the CIA only makes more of a case for picking a new speaker of the house.

In the interest of bipartisanship promised by the Obama administration, the Congress would operate better with a more moderated democrat as speaker.

Too bad it's too late to do that to Bush, Cheney, Tenet, et al. Too bad its too late to go after Reagan and North as well.

I will concede that deceit is something Gingrich is an expert on.

Gingrich is a pervert. He was already thrown out of Government. Don't ever forget why he was tossed out.

how to evade the whole issue of gop responsibility for torture as a part of american policy by making false accusations against democrats. - by newt gingrich