UPDATE! This post has been updated.
I think she's lying.
I'm sorry, its just not credible to attempt to make the distinction between knowing that they had legal memos saying they could waterboard and use other enhanced interrogation techniques, but they hadn't decided on using them yet.
I've read the first memo from beginning to end -- and intend to read the others when I get a chance -- and there's no indication in them that they were proceeding as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described. Those memos weren't prospective. They weren't just setting out the limits of what could be done within the law in a vacuum.
The first Bybee memo repeatedly referenced the injury the al Qaeda terrorist had suffered upon his capture and warned interrogators that they could do nothing that would aggravate that injury.
I'm sure we'll shortly hear from Republicans who were in the same briefings with a different story.
Sorry, but Nancy Pelosi just isn't credible.
UPDATE!
That didn't take long. Here's a 2007 Washington Post story that alleges that Pelosi was informed of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.
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