Some progress in the debate over what Nancy Pelosi knew about torture and when she knew it…
The Pelosi camp is now telling The Politico that Pelosi learned in early 2003 that we were waterboarding detainees, but took no real action out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels.Pelosi denies having been told in her September 2002 CIA briefing that we had already conducted waterboarding. But in February 2003, Michael Sheehy, a top aide to Pelosi, was briefed, along with Rep. Jane Harman, on the fact that the technique had already been used on Abu Zubaydah. And Pelosi’s camp acknowledges that Sheehy would have informed her about what he was told.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=142883