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Remainders: CIA
Ben Smith's Blog — Some nice advance work in New Mexico. Pelosi says the CIA lied to her. The CIA doesn't back down. Bob Graham's notes seem to back Pelosi. Josh Marshall floats a grand unified Iraq-torture theory. Palin stands with Carrie Prejean. A New York senator hints at picking up a vote on marriage. Nate Silver notes it's a heavy lift. Dan Savage finds Obama's gay marriage joke condescending, and infuriating. Brunner stays in in Ohio. Hutchison is ...

Advice to Wingnuts: Don’t Believe Pelosi on CIA Lying? Buy a Calendar
Firedoglake — ... . He also says that when he was briefed, there were staff members present, and procedure dictates that they would not have been anyone there but "authorized personnel" if "sensitive programs" such as waterboarding were being discused. ...

Bob Graham Doesn't Remember
The Corner on National Review Online — ... that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is lying about the CIA lying to her. Meanwhile, former Florida Senator Bob Graham (D), who served as the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee through 2002, has offered a recollection of intelligence briefings that appears to contradict both Pelosi and Panetta. Apparently, Graham was never briefed on waterboarding at all ever. Or at least, that's what he tells Sam Stein today in a truly weird interview that raises a lot more questions than it answers. (This is the Huffington Post , so Stein does not help clear up matters, but instead ...

Slam Dunk Gingrich
Open Left - Front Page — ... And so they're going after Nancy Pelosi for sticking by her guns that the CIA never briefed her that it had already used torture.  The CIA said they did brief her, Pelosi says not so much.  And since the CIA also said they had briefed former Senator Bob Graham four times (including twice shortly after Pelosi) and now they've been forced to back down from that, things aren't really looking so good for the Slam Dunk-era CIA guys, and their current-day ass-coverers. ...