theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 5/15/2009
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Whoa, this is interesting. CIA chief Leon Panetta is now pushing back against Nancy Pelosi ’s claims that the CIA misled Congress about who was told what and when about the use of torture. But Panetta is also amplifying and repeating the agency’s refusal to promise that the recently-released ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 5/21/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had a tough
week — much of it her own making. But...
in looking at the substance of the accusations, it increasingly looks like she was right. Porter Goss was careful to parse his words in the conditional future tense when ...
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Pelosi's Probably Right
foxnews.com - 5/21/2009
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foxnews.com —
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats on Thursday defeated a
Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claims...
that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects. The House voted 252-172 to ...
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Dems Swat Down GOP Demand for Probe of Pelosi CIA Claims ...
thinkprogress.org - 5/20/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
This morning, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich
went on ABC’s Good Morning America and called on...
Democrats to pressure Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to resign her position as Speaker. He claimed that she has “disqualified herself” ...
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Gingrich: Only Republicans — Like Me — Are Allowed To ...
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Panetta: It's Up To Congress To Figure Out Whether Our Records Are Accurate
TPMMuckraker —
... As Greg Sargent notes, this is far short of an unequivocal guarantee that the briefings document released last week is accurate. Instead, it appears to restate Panetta's ...
Porter Goss refuses to say that CIA told him and Pelosi about waterboarding in 2002 briefing.
Think Progress —
... Sargent points out that Goss’ “carefully-worded” op-ed never actually said that the CIA had informed Congress that waterboarding was being used, but only that Congress should have “understood” what “enhanced interrogation techniques” entailed. CIA Director Leon Panetta himself never confirmed the CIA’s record of the briefing, saying only that it is ultimately up to Congress “to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened.” ...
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/16/2009 —
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/20/2009 —
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Networks ignored Panetta's caveats about CIA summary of Pelosi briefing
mediamatters.org 5/15/2009 — During
their May 14 reports on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) statements
regarding what she was told in secret briefings about the CIA's
use of waterboarding, each of
the network evening newscasts pointed to CIA records describing a September 4, ...
The Role of the CIA
lefarkins.blogspot.com 4/18/2009 — Spencer has some thoughts: And here's how it's problematic for Obama, Blair and Panetta to indicate to the CIA that they'll stand by CIA officers who relied on OLC guidance for the torture. Marc Ambinder observes that there's some wiggle room in that ...
Pelosi Torture Shocker! CIA Manipulating Briefing Process!
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 5/9/2009 — OK. Not really a shocker. We knew that CIA was playing around with its obligation to inform the intelligence committees before it starts any big new projects--like opening torture factories around the world.
But that's the real story of this ...
Panetta urges Agency to 'ignore the noise' —
CNN Political Ticker 5/15/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — CIA Director Leon Panetta is urging the agency's employees to "ignore the noise" surrounding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim she was misled by the organization on interrogation techniques.
In a memo obtained by CNN, Panetta ...
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