The AP headline:
Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding
I thought Pelosi was flailing about accusing the entire government of perpetrating a massive conspiracy (including even Jon Stewart) to make her look complicit in the policies of the Bush administration:
“At the same time, the Bush administration was misleading the American people about the threats of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” she added. “The CIA was misleading the Congress. At the same time, the administration was misleading the Congress on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”… “This is a diversionary tactic, to take the spotlight off of those who conceived, developed, and implemented these policies, which all of us [Democratic leaders] opposed,” she said. “Understand — this is their policy, all of them.”
Just so we can get this straight, it’s only now that Pelosi has decided the CIA lied to her, years after the controversy began and weeks after this particular controversy began? Or even giving Pelosi the benefit of the doubt about that first briefing, Sheehy still told her just a few months later, in early 2003, that she was lied to, and as minority leader, she did nothing? She didn’t look into it, didn’t raise it with George Tenet, didn’t even write a letter protesting the CIA’s conduct? It’s ludicrous.
