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Lieberman 'totally disagrees' with Pelosi
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Lieberman 'totally disagrees' with Pelosi Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said today that he "totally disagrees" with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) assertion that the CIA regularly misleads Congress. "No, on that specific point I totally disagree," Lieberman told MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell. "Over the 20 years I've been here, I've been briefed constantly by the CIA, and I'd say they've told me the truth as they see it." At a press conference today, Pelosi argued that the CIA lied to her in September 2002 about whether Abu Zubaydah had been waterboarded. "Those briefing me gave me inaccurate and incomplete information," Pelosi said. "At the same time, the Bush ...
Lieberman: CIA tells me the truth
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Lieberman: CIA tells me the truth posted at 2:45 pm on May 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Senator Joe Lieberman doesn’t quite call Speaker Nancy Pelosi a lying sack, but he comes pretty close. When asked by Norah O’Donnell whether the “CIA misleads [Congress] all the time,” as Pelosi alleged today in her press conference, Lieberman laughs out loud (via Weekly Standard ): No, on that specific point, I totally disagree. You have to have confidence in the CIA. And over the 20 years I’ve been here, I’ve been briefed constantly by the CIA and I’d say that they’ve told me the truth, as they see ...
Lieberman: 'I Totally Disagree' With Pelosi Assertion that CIA Lies
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An exchange on MSNBC:
MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell: “Speaker Pelosi came out today and essentially when asked if the CIA is lying, she said, ‘they mislead us all the time.’ Do you agree with that? Does the CIA mislead Congress all the time?”
Senator Joe Lieberman: “No, on that specific point, I totally disagree. You have to have confidence in the CIA. And over the 20 years I've been here, I've been briefed constantly by the CIA and I'd say that they've told me the truth, as they see it.”
Lieberman doesn’t know where Pelosi’s getting this ‘misled’ thing from…
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…he’s been getting briefings from them for decades, with no complaints:
See also here, here, & here.
Ed Morrissey heard laughter in the above: I’m not as sure, but if it is there it’s both understandable and justified. Joe Lieberman’s taken a lot of garbage from Pelosi’s ideological cohorts over the years, and even though he’s easily given better than he’s gotten the thought of a little more payback is clearly not an unwelcome one. In fact, I think that Lieberman’s enjoying this more than the neocons are, and ...
Joe Lieberman: The CIA Tells Me The Truth
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Joe Lieberman basically hangs Nancy Pelosi out to dry:
No, on that specific point, I totally disagree. You have to have confidence in the CIA. And over the 20 years I’ve been here, I’ve been briefed constantly by the CIA and I’d say that they’ve told me the truth, as they see it.
I’m guessing more and more Democrats are going to be throwing Pelosi under the bus. She’s just out too far on the limb. Her lies are too transparent, and nobody on the left wants to go down with her.
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Lieberman: CIA “Told Me the Truth as They See It”
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Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Ct.) made this point about Rep. Nancy Pelosi's charges that the CIA misled Congress about torture:
"On that specific point I totally disagree. Over the 20 years I've been here, I've been briefed constantly by the CIA, and I'd say they've told ...
