Bob Graham: I Wasn’t Told About Waterboarding Or EITs In My Briefing

[Adelante]

Former Senator Bob Graham, who received a classified briefing on terror detainees during the same month in the fall of 2002 as Nancy Pelosi, was not briefed about the use of either waterboarding or enhanced interrogation techniques during the meeting, he claimed in an interview with me.

Graham’s assertion — his first public comments since the release of the intelligence document detailing torture briefings given to members of Congress — directly contradicts the document’s claim that he had been briefed on enhanced interrogation techniques, or EITs. Graham is now the second Dem official to deny on the record the document’s contents and raises questions about its claim that Pelosi had been told, which she has denied.

“I do not have any recollection of being briefed on waterboarding or other forms of extraordinary interrogation techniques, or Abu Zubaydah being subjected to them,” Graham told me by phone moments ago, in a reference to the terror suspect who had been repeatedly waterboarded the month before.

Graham is the only other Dem aside from Pelosi to get briefed in 2002, so they are both in effect asserting that no Dem was briefed on the use of EITs that year. The date of the next briefing was in February 2003.

Graham claimed he would have remembered if he’d been told about the use of torture. “Something as unexpected and dramatic as that would be the kind of thing that you would normally expect to recall even years later,” he said.

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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/bob-graham-i-wasnt-told-about-waterboarding-or-eits-in-my-briefing/

PLUS: We all know the dear man would have written it down in his daily journal.

[jody]

1. Don't forget Vice Chair Richard C. Shelby of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during that

period.

[emulatorloo]

2. Thanks for posting. If Boehner is pushing this story about 'Dems knew" then you know it is false.

Plus Bob Graham is extremely honest

[spanone]

3. k&r

[konnichi wa]

4. I have known him personally for 30 years and am inclined to believe him.

There may be 'more to the story'...??
I dunno...

[Adelante]

8. Lucky you

He is someone I've always admired. A good man.

[konnichi wa]

9. I agree. And I'm not one to defend somebody based only on his party affiliation.

If he's lying, it would be the first time I've seen it.
:hi:

[emulatorloo]

5. oh yeah, recommending! n/t

[OHDEM]

6. k&r nt

[OHDEM]

7. Ed just commented about this!

woohoo! Bob Graham apparently has credibility that Pelosi lacks for some people. Not sure what that's all about.

[Wednesdays]

10. K&R

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