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Documents Show Pelosi Briefed on Torture in 2002

HeadlineMay 08, 2009

Newly released documents show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on the Bush administration’s torture of foreign prisoners in September 2002. The disclosure apparently contradicts Pelosi’s claim she was never given details on what techniques were used. Intelligence records show Pelosi and then-House Intelligence Committee chair Porter Goss were briefed on the interrogation of suspected al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, who was waterboarded eighty-three times. Pelosi says she was never told the waterboarding was used.

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