So it goes.

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today accused intelligence officials of giving her “inaccurate and incomplete information” on the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics by the Bush administration, saying that CIA officials are guilty of “misleading the Congress of the United States.”

In her first public comments on the matter since an intelligence report contradicted her recollections, Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters today that she was never told about the fact that waterboarding had been used on a terrorist suspect, even though terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah had been waterboarded a month before she was briefed on the subject in Sept. 2002.

“The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed,” Pelosi said, reading from a prepared statement. “Those briefing me in Sept. 2002 gave me inaccurate and incomplete information.”

“At the same time, the Bush administration was misleading the American people about the threats of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” she added. “The CIA was misleading the Congress. At the same time, the administration was misleading the Congress on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

She’s just losing it now. As I talked about before Nancy Pelosi was fully briefed on interrogation techniques as has been reported several times. The fact of the record as minority leader she has no proof that she objected to the techniques.

She needs to quit while she’s behind. She can try to blame this on the CIA and the Bush Administration, but it will be a losing battle. Through recent polls we know that the American public – while not necessarily approving of the techniques, do understand why they were done.

A greater question for them to have answer is why is the Speaker of the House lying about her involvement when her excuse is fully refuted by the facts?

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