This just in...

... grass is green, the sky is blue, water is wet and Nancy Pelosi is a damned liar:

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah in September 2002, according to a report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence’s office and obtained by ABC News.

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. 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 details a Sept. 4, 2002 meeting between intelligence officials and Pelosi, then-House intelligence committee chairman Porter Goss, and two aides. At the time, Pelosi was the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.

The meeting is described as a “Briefing on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of particular EITs that had been employed.”

EITs stand for “enhanced interrogation techniques,” a classification of special interrogation tactics that includes waterboarding.

Pelosi, D-Calif., sharply disputed suggestions last month that she had been told about waterboarding having taken place.

“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," Pelosi said at a news conference in April. "What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel . . . opinions that they could be used, but not that they would." 

Brendan Daly, a Pelosi spokesman, said Pelosi’s recollection of the meeting is different than the way it is described in the report from the DNI’s office.

“The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used,” Daly said.

Daly pointed out that the report backs up Pelosi’s contention that she was briefed only once on “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Her name does not appear elsewhere in the report.

"As this document shows, the speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002," Daly said.

At the briefing, Pelosi did not formally register objections to the interrogation techniques authorized by the Bush administration. President Obama has said he considers such techniques to be "torture."

Pelosi, and those who are using this whole damned waterboarding idiocy for political gain, are despicable.

I think it great that their lies are coming to light.  Hats off to ABC News.

Comments

[Locutisprime]

Appears to contradict? WTF?

Her entire reality contradicts reason on a daily basis.

The lying (rhymes with witch)

[Steve]

It's too bad that it probably won't matter in the long run for Pelosi. It's not like her lying is ever going to put her House seat in jeopardy. She could say that the sky is orange and that bin Laden is her brother, and still get reelected every time. Thanks San Fran.

[Bernie]

This group of people can say what they want and nothing is going to happen to them. Wake up America this is who you voted for. The liberals offer abortion and the homosexual agenda as well as socialism.

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

By all means, let's have hearings on "enhanced interrogation techniques".

[Mommynator]

Why the surprise?

Her lips did move.