Under strong attack from Republicans, the leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her about waterboarding detainees and sharply rebutted claims she was complicit in its 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, the top House Democrat, subsequently learned that other lawmakers were told several months later by the CIA about the use of waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning. "I wasn't briefed, I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it," she said.

Why would anyone believe anything that Pelosi says? There is verifiable documentation that says she was briefed, now that it is inconvenient to know about it, she is calling those that briefed her Liars. So first their was no briefing but then they tried to stop it? What? Oh and later when she knew it was going on it was election time and of course taking power back from the Republicans was more important. That is it in a nutshell power is more important. Is Speaker Pelosi Lying?

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