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May 8, 2009

Documents Show Pelosi Briefed on Torture in 2002
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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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