Add another lawmaker that was not briefed..
From TPM:
At Friday's White House press briefing, Dana Perino insisted, repeatedly, that lawmakers had been briefed on the secret legal opinions from the Bush administration, which endorsed "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency." By my count, she repeated the claim 14 times during a 27-minute press briefing.
"The appropriate members of the Congress were briefed"; "Intelligence Committee members were briefed"; "I have been told they were fully briefed"; and so on. Asked specifically if lawmakers had been "fully briefed on the actual memos," the White House spokesperson said, "Yes."
Since then there have been quite a few lawmakers who've said the opposite.
Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he has not been briefed.
"I find it unfathomable that the committee tasked with oversight of the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program would be provided more information by The New York Times than by the Department of Justice," Rockefeller told acting Attorney General Peter Keisler.
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Cat Chow now knows what it means to be a White House Press Secretary. Yes lie to the face of the public and fellow reporters even when the facts are out there that you are out right a liar. I hope the money is worth looking like a fool and being seen as a ture liar.
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