Oh, Nancy, Nancy, Nancy

Did Nancy Pelosi really believe that her role in sitting in on CIA briefings about enhanced interrogations wouldn't come out if the Democrats kept making a big fuss about this? She was totally briefed

Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.

In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation 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 first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered "EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah." EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.

She knew and she has been obfuscating pretending that she didn't know. She's been lying to the American people and, perhaps more damaging, to her own caucus. She's claimed previously that she was never briefed about the use of waterboarding.

Pelosi, D-Calif., sharply disputed suggestions last month that she had been told about waterboarding having taken place.

“In that or any other briefing . . . we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used," Pelosi said at a news conference in April. "What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel . . . opinions that they could be used, but not that they would."

Her weasely defense continues.

In a carefully worded statement, Pelosi's office said today that she had never been briefed about the use of waterboarding, only that it had been approved by Bush administration lawyers as a legal technique to use in interrogations.

"As this document shows, the Speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002. The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used," said Brendan Daly, Pelosi's spokesman.

However, she was briefed in September of 2002. Zubaydah was waterboarded in August of 2002.How likely is it that Goss and Pelosi would be briefed about the enhanced interrogation techniques used on Zubaydah and waterboarding done a few weeks earlier wouldn't have been mentioned? Goss says that his colleagues are not being truthful about what they were told.

Whom are you going to believe - the evidence or Pelosi's lying eyes?