{"id":2142,"date":"2009-05-08T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2009-05-08T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:01:45","slug":"cia-says-pelosi-was-briefed-on-use-of-enhanced-interrogations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/cia-says-pelosi-was-briefed-on-use-of-enhanced-interrogations\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post and ABC News are reporting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on Enhanced Interrogations Techniques and their use on on Abu Zubaydah.<\/p>\n

From the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.<\/p>\n

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered “EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah.” EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABC News adds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On Feb. 4, 2003, a briefing on \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d for Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., revealed that interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri were taped.<\/p>\n

In addition, that briefing \u201cdescribed in considerable details\u201d the techniques used, including \u201chow the water board was used.\u201d<\/p>\n

A similar briefing the following day included Goss and Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who by that time had become the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, when Pelosi moved on to become minority leader.<\/p>\n

The report is accompanied by a letter from CIA Director Leon Panetta to intelligence committee leaders that describes the way it was compiled: \u201cThis letter presents the most thorough information we have on dates, locations, and names of all Members of Congress who were briefed by the CIA on enhanced interrogation techniques. This information, however, is drawn from the past files of the CIA and represents [memorandums for the record] completed at the time and notes that summarized the best recollections of those individuals. In the end, you and the Committee will have to determine whether this information is an accurate summary of what actually happened. We can make the MFRs available at CIA for staff review.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone has some explaining to do… Madam Speaker is either an outright liar or she has very bad memory. Either it seems pretty clear that the CIA has decided not to take the heat on enhanced interrogations alone. I suspect by now Barack Obama realizes what monumentally foolish mistake it was to release the Office of Legal Counsel memos on Enhanced Interrogations Techniques… As this leak shows top members of Congress were apparently briefed on the techniques and their use, and apparently didn’t raise objections their use.<\/p>\n

Human Events has the list of briefings including names, dates and times, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post and ABC News are reporting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on Enhanced Interrogations Techniques and their use on on Abu Zubaydah. From the Washington Post: Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,193],"tags":[59,663,664,611,667,668,131,666,665,44,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-2142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-war-on-terror","8":"tag-democrats","9":"tag-enhanced-interrogations-techniques","10":"tag-house","11":"tag-jane-harman","12":"tag-john-rockefeller","13":"tag-leon-panetta","14":"tag-nancy-pelosi","15":"tag-pat-roberts","16":"tag-porter-goss","17":"tag-republicans","18":"tag-senate","19":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-yy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2154,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/top-pelosi-aide-briefed-on-enhanced-interrogations-in-2003\/","url_meta":{"origin":2142,"position":0},"title":"Top Pelosi Aide Briefed on Enhanced Interrogations in 2003","author":"Jeff","date":"May 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Washington Post on Saturday reported that a top aide to Nancy Pleosi attended a briefing CIA briefing on Enhanced Interrogations, including waterboarding in 2003: A top aide to \u00a0House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2203,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/leon-panetta-angency-briefed-lawmakers-truthfully-in-2002\/","url_meta":{"origin":2142,"position":1},"title":"Leon Panetta: Angency Briefed Lawmakers Truthfully in 2002","author":"Jeff","date":"May 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"CIA Director Leon Panetta today released a statement defending his agency from charges that it mislead mmeber of Congress: There is a long tradition in Washington of making political hay out of our business. 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