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| Nancy Pelosi: I Was Briefed on NSA Program |
| 2005-12-18 |
| This, and Harry knowing about it, makes it complete. Both these losers said nothing negative about it until the NY Slimes article came out. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi confessed late Saturday that she signed off on President Bush's decision to have a top intelligence agency conduct "unspecified activities" to gather intelligence on possible terrorists operating inside the U.S. in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. "I was advised of President Bush's decision to provide authority to the National Security Agency to conduct unspecified activities shortly after he made it and have been provided with updates on several occasions," Pelosi admitted. The San Francisco Democrat claimed she expressed "strong concerns" about the "unspecified activities" at the time, but offered no evidence to that effect. Pelosi declined to explain why she didn't make public her concerns about the authorization, which Democrats now say was an outrageous abuse of civil rights. Instead, Pelosi admitted keeping silent about the "unspecified activities" even though she now believes they may have been illegal, saying Bush's acknowledgment of the NSA program on Saturday "raises serious questions as to what the activities were and whether the activities were lawful." On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid also admitted he kept silent about the controversial program, even though he was briefed on its existence "a couple of months ago." Still, he insisted that it made no difference that Democratic congressional leaders knew about the NSA program, telling Fox News Sunday: "This is something that's [the responsibility of] the president and the vice president and there's no way he can pass the buck." |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #4 The Dems will grab at any straw these days. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-12-18 20:01 |
| #3 San Fran Nan remembers it's Georges fault. What a ding bat. |
| Posted by: mjslack 2005-12-18 19:02 |
| #2 just like the WMD. They sign off on it and then pretend to be shocked! Shocked! |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-18 18:46 |
| #1 "I thought it was botox injections" |
| Posted by: Brett 2005-12-18 18:43 |