Throwing Down [UPDATED]
Nancy Pelosi is the living embodiment of the old joke: what’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care.
Except, while most people are laughing at her, not everyone is:
“I think she has lied to the House, and I think that the House has an absolute obligation to open an inquiry, and I hope there will be a resolution to investigate her. And I think this is a big deal. I don’t think the Speaker of the House can lie to the country on national security matters,” Gingrich said.
He continued: “I think this is the most despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
“She is a trivial politician, viciously using partisanship for the narrowist of purposes, and she dishonors the Congress by her behavior.”
“Speaker Pelosi’s the big loser, because she either comes across as incompetent, or dishonest. Those are the only two defenses,” Gingrich said. “The fact is she either didn’t do her job, or she did do her job and she’s now afraid to tell the truth.”
I would say that I expect the House Democratic Leadership pack to strip her carcass bare, except I don’t think there’s enough meat there. But I could definitely see Steny Hoyer with a bloody thigh bone in his mouth.
Calling the CIA liars? If one is wisely cautioned not to pick a fight with an institution who buys ink by the barrel (the media), I would think that goes double for one that poisons that ink and fills official Congressional ball points with it.
UPDATE
CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth…
Panetta, President Obama’s pick to run the clandestine agency and President Clinton’s former chief of staff, wrote in a memo to CIA employees Friday that “CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing ‘the enhanced techniques that had been employed,’” according to CIA records.
“We are an agency of high integrity, professionalism and dedication,” Panetta said in the memo. “Our task is to tell it like it is — even if that’s not what people always want to hear. Keep it up. Our national security depends on it.”
I wonder if Ms. Speaker sees this face in her dreams at night:
I’m beginning to feel as sorry for her as others did for the Abu Ghraib panty-drapees (for whom I did not feel sorry at all).