Not many people get away with calling the Central Intelligence Agency a bald-faced liar, at least not when they're speaking to a room packed with dozens of national media outlets. And yet that is exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (upper photo) did.
When Ms. Pelosi was asked by a reporter at a Capitol Hill press conference if she was accusing the CIA of lying to her in 2002, she said definitively, "misleading the Congress of the United States. I am."
And with that, she upped the ante in the high-stakes spat over who knew what (and when) about the Bush Administration's enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs), such as waterboarding.
CIA charts of who were briefed and when started surfacing. Topping the list? Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee that the CIA says was briefed in September of 2002 "on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah.
If Pelosi expected CIA director Leon Panetta (lower photo) to back her story she was in for a disappointment. He said the document showing her briefing on the subject was factual.
As the article began, not may people get away with calling the Central Intelligence Agency a bald-faced liar!
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