Posted by
Bert Chapman on Friday, May 15, 2009 4:32:51 PM
Those of you who remember the Gomer Pyle sitcom of the 1960s, will recall that one of his favorite lines he uttered when he didn't believe something was "Liar Liar pants on fire." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that she had not been briefed by the CIA on enhanced interrogation techniques nearly seven years ago has been demolished by CIA records saying she was briefed and by the testimony of numerous members of Congress from both parties. The last time such a high-ranking government official was caught in such a lie was when Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury in December 1998. Unfortunately, the political climate is more favorable toward Pelosi at this time, but her credibility (not that she had much with conservatives anyway) has taken an irreperable hit by her politically timed amnesia. Pelosi is more concerned with scoring retroactive political points against Bush Administration policies toward terrorists, than in finding effective ways of winning wars against these terrorists and extracting actionable intelligence from them. If Pelosi had concerns about enhanced interrogation techniques, she should have expressed them when she was briefed. Apparently, she did not express such concerns and little did she realize that May 2009 would see her make a perjuring fool out of herself, embarass the House of Representatives, and further increase enmity and distrust between intelligence community agencies and Congress. If Pelosi, had any shred of decency she would resign as Speaker but I don't see this egocentric prima donna having the courage to demonstrate such statesmanship.