Where is the Transparency and why are the American people being kept in the dark?

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2002 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terroist detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels. 

The Pelosi camp’s version of events is intended to answer two key questions posed by her critics: 

When, precisely, did she first learn about waterboarding? And why didn’t she do more to stop it? 

Pelosi has disputed a CIA document, released last week, that shows she was briefed in September 2002 on the “particular” interrogation techniques the United States had used on Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. Pelosi has said she was told then only that the Bush administration was considering using certain techniques in the future — and that it had the legal authority to do so. 

FUN FACTS:

1) In 2002, and again in 2006, Pelosi was briefed by 2 CIA officers regarding the techniques used to interrogate Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah.

2) These very officers are the ones Pelosi wants investigated now in 2009.

3) CIA officers keep copious written notes as well as making sure everything is read by the HIll. Unfortunately (ironically) these documents were declined admittance into these investigations.

4) Obama wont release any memos regarding knowledge of the techniques used in the interrogation process, as well as any information gathered as a result of them.

Transparency?