Pelosi: CIA Lied To Congress About Torture | Talking Points Memo

Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of lying to Congress about torture.

In a press conference given amid questions on what she knew and when about the Bush administration’s torture program, Pelosi said that she was explicitly told in her September 2002 briefing that waterboarding was not used. We’ve since learned that Abu Zubaydah had been waterboarded 83 times by then.She accused the agency of “misleading the Congress of the United States.”


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