Marathon Pundit: Pelosi says she was "misled" on waterboarding

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Pelosi says she was "misled" on waterboarding

Here's something scary for you to think about during the drive home this afternoon. Joe "Foot in Mouth" Biden is first in the line of presidential succession. Second is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Under strong attack from Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her about waterboarding detainees in the war on terror and sharply rebutted claims she was complicit in the method's use.

"To the contrary ... we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used," she told reporters, referring to a formal CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002.

Pelosi said she subsequently learned that other lawmakers were told several months later by the CIA about the use of waterboarding.

"I wasn't briefed, I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it," she said.