UPDATE: Everyone is still pointing their “You totally knew about torture” finger at Pelosi and she continues to deny that she knew anything. “To the contrary … we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used,” she told reporters, referring to a formal CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002. “I wasn’t briefed, I was informed that somebody else had been briefed about it.”

She also suggested that the current Republican criticism marked an attempt to divert attention from the Bush administration’s actions. “They misrepresented every step of the way, and they don’t want that focus on them, so they try to turn the attention on us.”

She is still calling for a Truth Commission.

ORIGINAL: Fingers are pointing every which way in DC right now trying to undo the cat’s cradle of who knew what, when, how, why, blame, blame, blame, etc.

Today, Nancy Pelosi claimed that the Bush Administration, heretofore known as Those With The Whip, did not inform Congress that it had waterboarded detainees in classified briefings. They only said that they thought it was legal. This meant they wouldn’t do it?  Yes. Um…

“In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used,” said Pelosi. “What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel…opinions that they could be used, but not that they would.”

Her statement contradicts a recently released Senate committee report that cited CIA records to claim that senior members of Congress in both parties were briefed on torture that had occurred. 

I hope she is telling the truth because if not, it’s going to screw with holding Cheney and other Bush higher-ups accountable for their “legal” crimes. Since she is calling for a truth Commission, I’m pretty sure she’s not lying.