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Home | News Briefs | U.S. | World | Celeb Buzz | Entertainment | Sports | Business | Health | Sci / Tech | Politics | Weird & Offbeat Republicans: Pelosi's Claim Of Being Misled By CIA "Despicable, Outrageous" May 15, 2009 12:55 p.m. EST --- Advertisment --- Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Republicans on Friday revved up their criticisms against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has been insisting that she was never informed by the Bush administration about the use of waterboarding and on Thursday accused the CIA of misleading her and Congress about it. Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), the ranking GOP in the Senate Intelligence Committee, told MSNBC's Morning Joe, "That's really unfortunate, to trash our intelligence community, as she's done. It only builds on the fear and inward-lookingness that's come about since the release of the opinions. I've seen the contemporaneous memos and cable traffic, and they told her as far as we can tell, what was going on and what they plan to do." Asked how many people knew in 2003 that waterboarding was being used, Bond said initially the "gang of four" were informed. These are the Democratic and Republican leaders of the intelligence committees in the House and in the Senate. The information was then "moved up" to the majority and minority leaders of both chambers. Bond added that the full Senate committee was briefed in the fall of 2006. The Republican leader did not directly answer a question whether the CIA had ever lied to him, but he made clear that the CIA was forthright about everything during an intelligence briefing. "They don't always tell the truth when they're working abroad, but when they have dealt with us -- and I dealt with them in some of the gang of four notifications -- they go out of their way to lay it out," Bond said. "They have charts, briefing points so you can see what they're saying, you can ask them questions. And when they come before the Congress, particularly on a sensitive matter, they are exquisite in detail, take a long time and offer opportunities for questions or comments." He earlier issued a statement saying it was "outrageous that a Member of Congress would call our terror-fighters liars." Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich less civil in his criticisms of his successor, calling Pelosi a "loser" and a "dishonor to Congress." Gingrich told ABC News Radio that Pelosi "has lied" to members of her own chamber, and that the House is "obligated" to open an inquiry to investigate her. "I don't think the Speaker of the House can lie to the country on national security matters," Gingrich said. "This is the most despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort I've seen in my lifetime... She is a trivial politician, viciously using partisanship for the narrowist of purposes, and she dishonors the Congress by her behavior." "Speaker Pelosi's the big loser, because she either comes across as incompetent, or dishonest. Those are the only two defenses. The fact is she either didn't do her job, or she did do her job and she's now afraid to tell the truth," he added. Waterboarding is a form of simulated drowning that critics say is torture. The Obama administration banned the technique two days after it occupied the White House. Intelligence reports and Justice Department memos declassified by the Obama administration in the past weeks have confirmed that waterboarding and other aggressive methods were used by the CIA as early as 2002. Pelosi is one of several Democrats who have called for a "truth commission" to investigate "abuses" by the Bush administration against detainees. Republicans have responded by saying that Congress had been informed by the Bush administration about the CIA's interrogation program. Pelosi on Thursday had insisted that she had been told by Bush officials that aggressive interrogation methods were legal under Justice Department opinions, but not that they were being used. The Speaker, who has been accused of issuing contradictory statements about her knowledge about when the CIA began using waterboarding, accused those officials of misleading lawmakers using "inaccurate information." In her weekly press briefing, Pelosi repeated previous statements that she had been briefed only once about enhanced interrogation techniques, in September 2002, when she was the top minority member of the House Intelligence Committee. But she disclosed for the first time that she had found out in 2003 that waterboarding was being used by the CIA. She also said that Republicans were criticizing her to divert attention from the Bush administration's terror policies. "The only mention of waterboarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed. Those conducting the briefing promised to inform the appropriate Members of Congress if that technique were to be used in the future," she said. Pelosi said she was informed by an aide five months after the briefing that the Republican chairman and the new top Democrat in the Intelligence panel, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), had been briefed "about the use of certain techniques which had been the subject of earlier legal opinions." Harman had sent CIA General Counsel Scott Muller a letter to raise concerns and protest the use of the interrogation methods, but "no letter could change the policy. It was clear we had to change the leadership of the Congress and the White House." Pushed by reporters to clarify her statement, Pelosi had said, "The CIA was misleading the Congress and at the same time the [Bush] administration was misleading Congress on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said in his own press briefing the same day, "I think the Speaker continues to raise more questions than provide answers... It's hard for me to imagine that anyone in our intelligence area would ever mislead any member of Congress." Copyright © 2003 - 2009 AHN - All rights reserved.Redistribution, republication. syndication, rewriting or broadcast is prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN.License AHN news for your website, business, digital signage network or publication. Home | News Briefs | U.S. | World | Entertainment | Sports | Business | Health | Sci / Tech | Politics | Weird / Offbeat © 2009 AHN Client Login | Submit News | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Contact | Content Services All Rights Reserved

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