Boehner wants CIA to release Pelosi notes

POLITICO - By Glenn Thrush - April 27, 2009

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is upping the ante on Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- asking the Obama administration to release CIA notes taken during a 2002 briefing session with Pelosi and other Congressional leaders.
Boehner is backing efforts by Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking member on the House intelligence committee, to release agency's records of meetings with Congressional members from both parties.
The GOP is hoping to spotlight the fact that Pelosi and other Democrats raised few objections when told about details of the Bush administration "enhanced interrogations" of terror suspects.
“Congress and the American people deserve a full and complete set of facts about what information was yielded by CIA’s interrogation program, and they deserve to know which of their representatives in Congress were briefed about these techniques and the extent of those briefings," says Boehner, backing Hoekstra's letter to DNI Dennis Blair.
He adds: "To date, the Administration has fallen short in providing this information. Mr. Hoekstra’s request to Director Blair is straightforward, and the information he is seeking is essential. The American people have been provided an incomplete picture of exactly what intelligence was made available by the interrogation program. It is now the Administration’s responsibility to ensure they are given the full picture – including which Members of Congress were briefed on the methods and how extensive those briefings were.”
Last week, Pelosi told reporters that officials informed her about the legal justification of waterboarding and other procedures when she was the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee.
The speaker said she didn't raise objections because she wasn't told the interrogations had actually begun -- and that her successor on the committee, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), protested several months later when it became clear what the administration was doing.