IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Pelosi's Claims Of Powerlessness

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Pelosi's Claims Of Powerlessness: "The highest-ranking member of the House of Representatives says that back during the first term of President George W. Bush, when the 9/11 terror attacks were still fresh in the minds of Americans, she and other key Democrats briefed by the CIA 'were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used.'

That contradicts the statements of others who where there, such as former House Intelligence Committee chairman and CIA director Porter Goss, plus intelligence officials interviewed on the subject going back to 2007.

But Speaker Pelosi, who was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee in 2002, further claimed that there was nothing she and her fellow Democrats in Congress could have done about it. 'They don't come in to consult,' the speaker said last week. 'They come in to notify . . . you can't change what they're doing.'"


Lets read a bit further and see if she is telling the truth ...