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Confirmed: Pelosi Lied About CIA Briefing on Waterboarding

RG_From_THP_1 Wrote: May 01, 2012 11:46 AM
Nancy Pelosi is 'Cut from the Same Cloth' as Barack Obama and both are simply incapable of telling the truth - about anything! I attempted to keep up with and document Barack Obama's lies, and soon gave up finding it was easier and less time consuming to track when he tells the truth on the rare occasions he doesn't lie. Both Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are inveterate liars. HELP for Liberals: Inveterate = Long-established habit and that is unlikely to change.
inkling_revival Wrote: May 01, 2012 1:13 PM
That's actually not entirely true. They have no objection to the truth when it's politically useful.

This distinguishes them from Bill Clinton, who, as a pathological liar, was literally incapable of telling the truth, and lied even when the truth would have been more useful politically.

Clinton is to be pitied and treated by competent psychologists. Pelosi and Obama deserve to be imprisoned. Neither will happen.

Three years ago, I wrote a satirical column "defending" Nancy Pelosi against accusations that she had lied publicly about being briefed by the CIA about the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) -- including waterboarding -- on enemy detainees as far back as 2002.  Here's her infamous denial:
 


The evidence against Pelosi was so strong that her tale could only be explained one of two ways: Either (a) she was lying, or (b) a vast conspiracy had constructed a web of deceit to ensnare her. ...

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