youtube.com - 4/23/2009
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra told Sean Hannity tonight that Nancy Pelosi wasn't paying attention if she thought the CIA was not waterboarding.
huffingtonpost.com - 4/25/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
The Bush administration did not inform Congress that
it had waterboarded detainees in classified briefings, after the...
agency had already done so, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) charged Thursday. Pelosi told reporters that the administration ...
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Pelosi: Bush Administration Never Briefed Congress On ...
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Pelosi Was Cool With Waterboarding...
Politics Daily —
Filed under: House, Nancy Pelosi, Investigations...when waterboarding was cool. Well either that, or she just wasn't paying attention, as Pete Hoekstra implies here:
I think reasonable people can argue whether waterboarding is torture. It creates pain and unpleasantness, and the Wikipedia article is worth reading, but even more so the discussion. All in all it's not something I would like us doing, but if the alternative were if lives were at stake in another 9/11 style attack as Dick Cheney asserts, and all other options were fruitless, I personally would sign ...
Rep. Pete Hoekstra: Pelosi "Wasn't Paying Attention" If She Thought CIA Was Not Waterboarding
Gateway Pundit —
Ouch!... Rep. Pete Hoekstra told Sean Hannity tonight that Nancy Pelosi "wasn't paying attention" if she thought the CIA was not waterboarding: Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the enhanced interrogation techniques way back in 2002. It didn't seem to bother her... Or, maybe she just wasn't paying attention. Rep. Hoekstra this morning in an article at The Wall Street Journal called for an investigation into the likely damage done to U.S. national security by Mr. Obama's decision to release the memos. ...
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GOP leader: Bipartisanship idea 'a ruse' —
CNN.com - Politics 4/23/2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she feels a "spirit of pride" thinking back over the new administration's first 100 days, but House Minority Leader John Boehner said it's become clear to him that the idea of bipartisanship "was a ruse."
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Pelosi, Reid part ways on torture panel —
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