Nancy Pelocchio produces own episode of Lie to Me
Tim Roth Flabbergasted
Hot Air has a great analysis of Pelosi flat out lying to the press over what she knew and when she knew it. Tim Roth would have a field day. At one point (5;03) she has to go back to her notes. “My statement is clear, let me read it again, let me read it again, I was informed…” you can literally see her trying to keep the lies straight. She also keeps bringing up Iraq in an obvious attempt to undermine the CIA’s credibility.
As I’ve said before, Nancy Pelosi is Tracy Flick without boundaries, intellect or shame. Pathetic.
[...] Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, issued a soft rebuke of Nancy Pelocchio, who had accused the CIA of “l[ying] all the time” and intentionally misleading her and Congress over enhanced interrogation techniques, including [...]
[...] Beyond the scapegoat mentality of Washington, there is the chilling effect of any investigation. The CIA has already been brushed back by Obama’s anti-anti-terrorism stance. The release of torture memos in April put the CIA’s vital anti-terror mission in jeopardy as its employees began to fear for their own personal and professional safety. Slow-rolling became the order of the day. This continued as the ever fickle Obama administration decided to release, and then not release photos of detainee interrogations certain to inflame passions of liberals and other terrorist sympathizers (oh stop complaining and look in the mirror). In June, Phillip Mudd, Obama’s choice for undersecretary of intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, was forced to withdraw his nomination. At the time, it was more politically expedient for Obama to throw him under the bus than to admit that the CIA had not, in fact, lied to Nancy Pelosi about interrogation techniques. [...]