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Pelosi Won't Slap China on Human Rights

Long critical of Beijing, speaker will focus on environment in visit

May 24, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like Hillary Clinton before her, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will sidestep Beijing's human rights record on her weeklong trip to China that began today, reports the Washington Post. Pelosi, who has been a vocal critic of the Tiananmen Square massacre and Chinese policies on Tibet, says the focus of her... More »

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(Newser) - A Republican congressman tells Politico that a new RNC video depicting Nancy Pelosi as Pussy Galore is "reprehensible, irresponsible and unpersuasive." Utah's Jason Chaffetz says the GOP must "get away from the politics of personal destruction." The video, which juxtaposes Pelosi with the infamous James Bond... More »

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(Newser) - Don't look for Nancy Pelosi to shed any more light on what she may or may not have known about the CIA’s interrogations. At a press conference today—her first since she accusedthe agency of misleading her and Congress—the House speaker clammed up, reports the Hill. “I... More »

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Specter Backs
Pelosi in CIA Torture Flap

Cites agency's 'very
bad record' on honesty, chides GOP for 'games'

May 20, 09 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter defended Nancy Pelosi today against the CIA and former GOP colleagues he says are making a “political game” out of the interrogation debacle. “The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to honesty,” the Senate’s newest Democrat said. Specter charged that the... More »

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(Newser) - The CIA debacle engulfing Nancy Pelosi stems from two key mistakes on the part of the House speaker, Jay Newton-Small writes in Time. Pelosi’s dangerous belief that media training is “a waste of her time” was demonstrated when she walked away from her own press conference on the... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • CIA • torture • House of Representatives • press conference • speaker of the House • Obama administration • President Obama • enhanced interrogation techniques • Dennis Cardoza • John Spratt

 Gingrich 
 Slams Pelosi 
 on Daily Show 

Points way to door over CIA comments

May 20, 09 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich “essentially” called for Nancy Pelosi’s resignation as House speaker last night in a chat with Jon Stewart, Gawker reports. "She either should prove her allegation” that the CIA regularly misleads Congress, or “I think she's done a huge disservice,” the former speaker said... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • CIA • Newt Gingrich • resignation • late night talk show • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • speaker of the House

Dems Go to Bat for Pelosi as Accusations Fly

Speaker 'not in any trouble' as loyal caucus backs her in CIA ruckus

May 20, 09 5:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Republicans have all but slapped a bulls-eye on Nancy Pelosi over what she knew about CIA interrogation practices, but as the Washington Post reports, House Democrats have rallied behind the speaker. In a sign of the considerable unity of the party caucus, several leading Democrats said yesterday that they believe... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • CIA • torture • Democratic caucus • Republican Party • House Democrats • speaker of the House

OPINION

The White House May Be Trying
to Purge Pelosi

Kristol: Why else would CIA boss 'humiliate' his party's speaker?

May 18, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - After Nancy Pelosi suggested the CIA had misled Congress, the agency’s director fired back with a letter denying the claim. But the idea that Leon Panetta would send a letter “humiliating a House speaker of his own party” entirely of his own accord seems “almost inconceivable,”... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • CIA • torture • Rahm Emanuel • speaker of the House • Leon Panetta • ouster • Obama administration • President Obama • CIA director

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Steele Dodges 
 Torture Question 

ACLU slams Obama; Liz Cheney: 'fantasies' spread about dad

May 17, 09 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Steele has “a personal opinion” on whether the CIA’s interrogation techniques amounted to torture, but he refused to share it with David Gregory on Meet the Press today. “That’s not appropriate,” the RNC chairman said. But Steele did defend Dick Cheney and said Nancy... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Jim Webb • Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • Mitch McConnell • John Boehner • interrogation techniques • Liz Cheney

Pelosi Backtracks on CIA Claims

Speakers shifts focus
to Bush administration
after Panetta rebuff

May 16, 09 2:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi retreated yesterday from her claim the CIA lied to Congress about its interrogation program and shifted the blame to the Bush administration, Politico reports. The speaker said her criticism is "separate from my respect for those in the intelligence community who work to keep our country safe.... More »

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(Newser) - CIA director Leon Panetta today denied Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the agency misled lawmakers in a 2002 briefing, the Hill reports. In a memo to employees, Panetta said “CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing ‘the enhanced techniques that had been employed.’... More »

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OPINION

 'Moral Calculus' 
 Made Torture OK: 
 Krauthammer 

Krauthammer doing 'moral calculus'

May 15, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi’s “contemptible hypocrisy” on the torture issue tells us a great deal about the “moral calculus” behind the issue, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. “Our jurisprudence has the ‘reasonable man’ standard,” he argues, which asks a jury to decide what a... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • torture • harsh interrogation • Charles Krauthammer • Yitzhak Rabin • moral calculus

analysis

 Pelosi Raises 
 Stakes in 
 Torture Debate 

Speaker puts herself at center of storm over Bush policies

May 15, 09 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whether by accident or design, Nancy Pelosi has turned the debate on the Bush administration's anti-terror program into a high-stakes game of brinksmanship, Dan Balz writes in the Washington Post. Pelosi's declaration yesterday that the CIA lied to Congress amounts to "a declaration of war," Balz writes, setting... More »

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Graham: CIA Didn't
Tell Me About Waterboarding

Ex-senator's stance
may help Pelosi

May 14, 09 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - This could help Nancy Pelosi's case: Bob Graham, former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tells the Huffington Post and Plum Line that the CIA never told him about waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques in a 2002 briefing. Graham, a Democrat, also criticized the agency's records as "suspect.... More »

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(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA lied to Congress about waterboarding will likely have broad political consequences, Chris Cillizza writes in the Washington Post. In the short term, Pelosi has stolen President Obama’s thunder on credit-card reform and could force the early announcement of a Supreme Court nominee... More »

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(AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she was not complicit in the government’s decision to waterboard terrorist suspects, and she claimed the CIA misled her about whether the interrogation technique considered torture by many was being used. “To the contrary … we were told explicitly that waterboarding was... More »

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OPINION

Rove: Pelosi's an Accomplice to Torture

'Someone appears not to be telling the truth' about waterboarding

May 14, 09 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove indulges in a bit of revenge on Nancy Pelosi in his Wall Street Journal column today, writing that "the political persecution of Bush administration officials she has been pushing may now ensnare her." As evidence mounts that the CIA told her as early as 2002 about... More »

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Bush administration • Nancy Pelosi • Congress • CIA • torture • Karl Rove • waterboarding • Porter Goss • harsh interrogation • Leon Panetta

(Newser) - President Obama today called on lawmakers to send him a health care reform bill before the end of the year, the Wall Street Journal reports. “We've got to get it done this year,” the president said in a meeting with House Democrats. “We don't have any... More »

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(Newser) - Republicans are slamming Nancy Pelosi for saying she felt she had no recourse when informed of harsh interrogation tactics in 2003, Politico reports. “If she felt it was wrong, she should have acted,” John McCain said. Some critics suggest the House speaker could have written a letter or... More »

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Bush administration • Nancy Pelosi • Congress • John McCain • CIA • torture • Senate • Dianne Feinstein • Lamar Alexander • Carl Levin • waterboarding • House Intelligence Committee

GOP: Torture Probe Must Include Pelosi

Republicans say speaker knew; hope to quiet Dems on matter

May 11, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - As calls continue for an investigation of Bush administration officials over torture, Republicans think they may have an ace in the hole: Nancy Pelosi, they say, knew waterboarding had taken place but didn’t try to stop it. Some Republicans think threatening the House Speaker will make her and fellow... More »

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