Pelosi: No More To Say On CIA

Amid increasing pressure and criticism, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told reporters she has “nothing more to say” about her allegations that the CIA lied to her about Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.

“I have made the statement that I’m going to make on this,” Pelosi told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference. “I don’t have anything more to say about it. I stand by my comment.”

Republican lawmakers have ratched up the pressure after Pelosi’s stunning allegation that she was lied to by CIA officials about EITs, including waterboarding.

“Her obsession with the previous administration and her disdain for America’s intelligence officials has reduced her to cheerleader status within the far left wing of her party and a distraction to the substantive debate over how to best move our economy forward,” said Ken Spain, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, in a press statement.

“Claiming that the CIA engaged in a pattern of deception without either backing it up with evidence or retracting her statement and apologizing is an affront to the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect our country,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a statement released Friday.

Upon leaving the news conference on Friday, Pelosi declined to answer a question about whether she had called CIA Director Leon Panetta to discuss the matter further.

Instead, Pelosi had stuck faithfully to her script, saying Democrats were making progress on other issues.

“We’re going forward in a bipartisan way for jobs, health care, energy for our country,” she said. Regarding the CIA’s briefing of Congress on waterboarding, “I won’t have anything more to say about it.”

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