Speaker Pelosi is now trying to claim that she didn’t know anything about waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back on GOP charges that she knew about waterboarding for years and did nothing.

Pelosi says she was briefed by Bush administration officials on the legal justification for using waterboarding — but that they never followed through on promises to inform her when they actually began using “enhanced” interrogation techniques

“In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel … opinions that they could be used,” she told reporters today.”

Congressional staffers present at the briefings and with knowledge of Mrs Pelosi’s responses at the time assert she made no such objection either then or during their tenure in the months afterwards. Indeed they confirm this:

“The attitude was, ‘We don’t care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.”

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