PELOSI'S STANDS BY TORTURE STATEMENTS
Posted: Friday, May 08, 2009 3:34 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC's Mike Viqueira and Domenico Montanaro
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is standing by her position on her previous
statements on what she knew about torture techniques used by the U.S.
government:
"Of the forty CIA briefings to Congress reported recently in the
press, I was only briefed once, on September 4, 2002, as I have
previously stated. As I said in my statement of December 9, 2007: 'I
was briefed on interrogation techniques the Administration was
considering using in the future. The Administration advised that legal
counsel for both the CIA and the Department of Justice had concluded
that the techniques were legal.' I had no further briefings on the
techniques.
"My understanding of the briefing I received is consistent with the
description that CIA General Counsel Scott Muller provided to
Congresswoman Jane Harman in a letter dated February 28, 2003, which
states: 'As we informed both you and the leadership of the
Intelligence Committees last September, a number of Executive Branch
lawyers including lawyers from the Department of Justice participated
in the determination that, in the appropriate circumstances, the use
of these techniques is fully consistent with U.S. law.' As reported in
the press, the accompanying memo from CIA Director Panetta concedes
that the descriptions provided by the CIA may not be accurate."
Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/05/08/19269...
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