Way down at the bottom of the Washington Post web page we find:
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You might think there would be more emphasis on the second one down, since it clearly accuses House Speaker and Democrat Nancy Pelosi of unabashedly lying about the briefings she received on the "enhanced interrogation techniques."
'In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress briefed on the tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House intelligence committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The memo, issued to Capitol Hill by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency, notes that the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered "EITs including the use of EITs" on Abu Zubaida. EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique, and Abu Zubaida, whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured. He also was the first to have the controversial tactic of simulated drowning, or waterboarding, used against him.'
In defense of this deliberate downplay by the Washington Post, one might concede that catching a top House Democrat in a self serving lie is nothing new.
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