Pelosi was briefed on waterboarding in 2002, despite saying she wasn’t: report

Pelosi was briefed on waterboarding in 2002, despite saying she wasn’t: report:

"Raw Story
Friday, May 8, 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the Bush Administration’s torture techniques in 2002 — even though she’s publicly said she was never told about the use of waterboarding, according to a new report.

ABC News’ Rick Klein revealed Thursday evening that a report from the Director of National Intelligence fingered Pelosi as having been briefed in 2002, even though she denied last month ever having knowledge of the Bush administration’s so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

“The report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, appears to contradict Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of waterboarding or other special interrogation tactics,” Klein writes.

“Instead, she has said, she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques.”

The report purportedly focuses on a meeting on Sept. 4, 2002, between US intelligence officials and Pelosi, then Minority Leader, then-House intelligence committee chairman Porter Goss (who later became CIA director) and two aides. Pelosi was, at the time, the ranking member on the intelligence committee"