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‘I was just briefed that they were informed that some of the enhanced situations were used.’

The honest-to-God transcript of Pelosi’s remarks yesterday:

QUESTION: (Inaudible).

PELOSI: They mislead us all the time. I was fighting the war in Iraq at that point, too, you know, saying to my members the intelligence does not support the imminent threat that they are conceding. But what’s the point? Yes, they did. 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. We had to win the election to make the change. We did. President Bush vetoed the bill. We have a new president who is going to do that.

But the committees can look into and see the timing of who knew what and when and what the nature of the briefing was. I have not been briefed as to what they were briefed on in February. I was just briefed that they were informed that some of the enhanced situations were used.

Putting aside the incoherence of the first paragraph, do those last two sentences seem contradictory to everyone else? I wasn’t briefed on what others were told about the enhanced “situations,” but I was just told they were used?

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