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emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 5/16/2009
Graham: CIA Claimed to Have Briefed Before Torture, They Did Not
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I've got to correct something I said yesterday about Bob Graham. I reported that Graham said that CIA had given him two erroneous dates for briefings. That was wrong (RawStory reported the number correctly, though). They gave erroneous dates for three briefings. The difference is ...
breitbart.com - 5/22/2009
Pelosi: Nothing more to say on her CIA allegation
— breitbart.com — WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she won't talk any more about her charge... that the CIA lied in 2002 about using waterboarding on terrorism suspects. "I have made the statement that I'm going to make on this," she told ... (more) Pelosi: Nothing more to say on her CIA allegation

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Pelosi's Tortured Denials
factcheck.org - 5/22/2009
Pelosi's Tortured Denials
— factcheck.org — The facts behind the speaker's changing story about her knowledge of CIA waterboarding.... (more) Pelosi's Tortured Denials

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cnsnews.com - 5/22/2009
Democratic Congressmen Flee When Asked about Pelosi and CIA (See Video)
— cnsnews.com — (CNSNews.com) - When asked by CNSNews.com to comment on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s (D-Claif.) statement at... her press conference last week that the CIA misleads Congress all the time," two Democratic congressmen briskly walked away declining to ... (more) Democratic Congressmen Flee When Asked about Pelosi and ...

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Dick Cheney, Torture, Iraq, and Valerie Plame
Firedoglake — ... And here's Graham: Yes, they're obligated to tell the full Intelligence Committee, not just the leadership. This was the same time within the same week, in fact, that the CIA was submitting its National Intelligence Estimate on weapons of mass ...

The Torturer Times: The Washington Post’s Partisan Press Release Service
Firedoglake — ... The story doesn't report that two out of three of the other members of Congress who were "briefed" in September 2002 (including the hyper-anal Bob Graham) back Pelosi's claim. Here's Graham: ...

Thou Torturest the Truth: CIA’s Comedy of Briefing List Errors
Firedoglake — ... April 2002 (two briefings), September 2002: When Bob Graham first asked the CIA when they had briefed him on torture, they gave him a list of four dates, two in April 2002, and two in September 2002. However, when Graham reviewed his famously detailed notes, he discovered he had not attended any briefing on three of those dates (both April dates and one September date). The CIA conceded he was correct on the issue. ...

The CIA's Torture Untruths
Commondreams.org Views — ... Democrats in congress, only to be proved wrong. The CIA once claimed it had briefed Senator Bob Graham, then chair of the Senate intelligence committee, four times on torture: twice in April 2002, and twice in September 2002. After Graham referred to his meticulous notes and showed there had been no briefing on three of those dates, the CIA admitted it had briefed him just once, in late September 2002. And when it finally got around to briefing Graham in late September 2002, he maintains , it told him nothing about waterboarding. The CIA tried to ...

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