FactCheck.org:Pelosi now concedes that she knew about the CIA (Including the waterboarding)
Evidence is sketchy. So far, no recordings, verbatim transcripts or contemporary notes of Pelosi’s 2002 briefing have surfaced, and for all we know none may even exist. All that’s known publicly are conflicting, after-the-fact accounts. So we simply can’t determine exactly what the CIA told Pelosi in 2002, or exactly when she became aware of what was going on.
One thing is clear: Pelosi herself now concedes that she knew about the CIA program — including the waterboarding — far earlier than she had led the public to believe. Her calls for a “Truth Commission” come six years after she now admits that she first learned about the CIA enhanced interrogation program.
In what follows, we’ll lay out what both sides are saying, and leave it to our readers to judge.
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