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Nancy Pelosi: “In the briefing that I received, we were told that they had legal opinions that this was legal. We were not told that it…”

On the recordMay 13, 2009
In the briefing that I received, we were told that they had legal opinions that this was legal. We were not told that it was -- that there were other legal opinions to the contrary in the administration, and we were told specifically that waterboarding was not being used.
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Nancy Pelosi
Democratic · California

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Speaker Pelosi discusses her briefing on enhanced interrogation techniques and claims the CIA misled Congress.

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