Text and Video of an ABC News Conference uploaded to YouTube about 2 p.m., May 14, 2009
Posted on Evans Politics, May 14, 2009.
Conclusion:
Reporter: "Just to be clear; You're accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2007."
Pelosi: "Yes. Misleading the Congress of the United States. Misleading the Congress of the United States."
Pelosi: "I have long supported creation of an independent truth commission to determine how intelligence was misused, and how controversial and possibly illegal activities like torture were authorized within the executive branch. Until an independent truth commision comes into being, I encourage the appropriate committees of the House to conduct vigorous oversight of these issues.
"The Bush administration has conceived a policy... The CIA comes to the Congress, withholds information about the timing and the use of this subject. They ...we later find out... that had been taking place before they they even briefed us about the legal opinions, and told us that they were not being used.
"This is a tactic, a diversionary tactic to take the spotlight off of those who conceived, developed and implemented these policies, which all of us long opposed. My action on it was further to say, we have to change the majority in congress, we have to win the White House, so that we can change that."
Reporter: "Just to be clear; you're accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2007."
Pelosi: "Yes. Misleading the Congress of the United States. Misleading the Congress of the United States."