Pelosi Calls CIA Liars

It’s been a tough year for Nancy Pelosi. Formerly the most powerful Democrat in DC, she’s now playing second fiddle to a popular president who soaks up media attention like a … never mind. “Black hole” is racist, we’ve been told.

Anyway, when Pelosi has made headlines, it’s been for all the wrong reasons.

First there was the embarrassing private jet flap (in which her staff bossed military personnel around like hired help) and now there’s a very public spat with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), whom Pelosi has accused of being liars.

From Pelosi’s hometown paper:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently said her motto is “The best preparation for combat is combat.”

With both guns blazing at an extraordinary news conference Thursday, the Democrat from San Francisco made good on that, accusing the CIA of lying when the agency said she was told about torture in 2002.

In doing so, Pelosi turned a distraction into a conflagration. She had little choice after two weeks of Republican accusations that it was she who was lying, accompanied by a leaked CIA timeline that said she had been briefed on Sept. 4, 2002, that “enhanced interrogation techniques” – a euphemism for torture – “had been employed.”

Democrats quickly closed ranks behind the speaker. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, made clear whom she believes.

“I’ve know Nancy a long time,” Feinstein said. “We lived a few houses apart for a couple of decades. I’ve never known her not to be truthful. Let me put that on the record.”

Of course coming from someone like Feinstein, you might want to take that with an ocean of salt.

So what did Pelosi know and when did she know it?

We’ll probably never know … although as we said when Barack Obama did it last month … pissing off the CIA is never a good idea, is it?

Just ask Fidel Castro … wait … never mind.