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Defend America on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:17:18 PM
Pelosi Reasserts Claims On CIA Interrogation Techniques
By James Rosen and Chad Pergram
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FOXNews.com
Prodded
by the release of dozens of declassified CIA documents, House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi reasserted her longstanding position about what she knew
regarding the agency's use of harsh interrogation practices.
"I have never been briefed by the CIA or anyone else on the subject
of those interrogations, to the extent that they were being used," the
California Democrat told reporters Tuesday. "We were only briefed that
there were lawyers in the Justice Department that thought they were
legal, period."
The comments marked Pelosi's first foray into the controversy in
nine months that pitted the top House Democrat against the nation's
premier spy agency. Responding to a lawsuit filed by Amnesty
International and two other human rights watchdog groups, the CIA
released several dozen documents detailing how the CIA handled
suspected terrorism suspects and briefed lawmakers about it.
The documents show Pelosi was briefed about "ongoing interrogations
of Abu Zubaydah" on April 24, 2002, just weeks after the top Al Qaeda
suspect was captured in Pakistan. Previously, Pelosi asserted the 2002
briefing covered only "interrogation techniques the administration was
considering using in the future."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/23/pelosi-renews-dispute-cia-interrogation-techniques/