Pelosi Admits To Knowing About Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

In an ever changing story, Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, finally admits to being briefed on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.

Fox news is reporting that.

Pelosi issued a statement after CIA records released this week showed that Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on the interrogation methods.

And that.

The briefings memo appeared to contradict the speaker's claims that she was never told that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation methods were being used

She said she had been briefed "once" and that CIA and Justice Department lawyers assured here that these techniques were legal. This revelation contradicts her previous statement , on April 23rd 2009. where she said.

"We were not -- I repeat -- were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used,"

Back as far as 2007 Mrs. Pelosi maintained that she did not have knowledge of the use of ETA's on any persons detained by the United States. She said, on December 9th 2007, that.

'I was briefed on interrogation techniques the (Bush) administration was considering using in the future. The administration advised that legal counsel for both the CIA and the Department of Justice had concluded that the techniques were legal,'"

But this now has been contradicted by the official record of the 2002 briefings. In those briefings, Speaker Pelosi, and others where told about the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and their use on Abu Zubaydah, a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It's not clear why the Speaker has withheld this information. Some say the motive is political. It's well know that Mrs. Pelosi and the Democrats in congress have been pushing for a "independent commission to investigate officials and lawyers involved with the Bush-era interrogation programs." The release of the memos, and the revelation of Mrs. Pelosi knowledge of the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, will put something of a cloud over that effort. There may be silver lining to this cloud though. If public hearings were to be held it will become know very quickly that many members of congress were aware to the use of ETA's. The article reports that.

from the beginning of the program in 2002 until it became public in the fall of 2006, the House held 13 votes to authorize intelligence funding at which time no one objected or demanded changes to any intelligence programs.

It's not clear why, knowing what she did, Speaker Pelosi would now criticize a program that she for years had known about. Brad Blakeman, a GOP strategist, summed up the situation this way.

"Either the speaker has a veracity problem or an incompetence problem and it could be both," Blakeman told FOX News. "The fact of the matter is she was briefed and she was hoping that the top secret nature of these briefings would shield her from this information coming out."

What will the outcome be regarding those who involved in this case? Will there be a political price to pay for the seeming appearance of a cover up by Speaker Pelosi. Will the lawyer who wrote the legal justification for the use of ETA's be prosecuted. Will any higher ups in the Bush administration be charged? Only time will tell.