John Boehner Challenges Nancy Pelosi to Provide the Evidence That the CIA Lied to Her About Waterboarding

  John Boehner has challenged Nancy Pelosi to present the evidence that the CIA lied to her when she was briefed about waterboarding. This is a fair and completely legitimate request.

I think she needs to bring forward evidence to back up her claim, and turn that over to the Justice Department, as I said when this issue first came up some three weeks ago.

  If the CIA lied to congress than a crime was committed. If a crime was committed than the CIA should be investigated and put on trial. When Nancy Pelosi’s staff was asked whether she would ask the Justice Department to investigate her allegations they responded by saying that the question was not legitimate. There is no more legitimate question to be asked if in fact the CIA lied to congress.

  It would seem to me that if the CIA did lie to congress about waterboarding that Nancy Pelosi would have jumped at the opportunity to have them investigated by the Justice Department. She would in effect be putting the Bush administration on trial.

   She has claimed to be outraged over the use of waterboarding but she knew about it and approved of it. When it became general knowledge that she condoned waterboarding she made the false accusation that the CIA was lying to her.

  The fact that she seems unwilling to have the CIA investigated for the crime that she accused them of, and can provide no evidence to back up her claim, shows us that she is the one who is lying. John Boehner has called Nancy Pelosi’s bluff and her silence shows us her guilt, not the guilt of the CIA.

  Nancy Pelosi should resign as speaker, and from congress, for her false indictment of the CIA but that is not going to happen. I would settle for an admission that she condoned waterboarding and an apology to the CIA.

  The voters will be left to decide her fate, hopefully they do the right thing.