Rush Limbaugh asks:

Folks, do you remember that line you learned when you were a little kid — the philosophy question, logic question — “If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there, does it make a sound?” Remember that question?

Well, there’s a new version of this that I, ladies and gentlemen, would like to put forth: “If a liberal tells a whopper of a lie and no one reports it, is it a lie?” Nancy Pelosi, who promised to clean up Washington — or was it to clean up in Washington? Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee. Nancy Pelosi is caught in a real whopper, such a whopper that she had to run off to Iraq in a “surprise visit” yesterday to reframe the news.

A Director of National Intelligence (DNI) report released last week that described congressional briefings about enhanced interrogation techniques showed Mrs. Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 about so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, or EITs, which included waterboarding.

Waterboarding, a tactic that simulates drowning and denounced by Barack Hussein Obama as torture, has become a centerpiece for criticizing the purported excesses of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism.

Mrs. Pelosi, who recently said she was never told that waterboarding would be used on terrorism suspects, responded by questioning the accuracy of the intelligence memo.

Top Democrats are defending liar Pelosi but many others in the party are staying quite mum on the subject. Of course the counterattack is the GOP is creating this stir.

Questions about Mrs. Pelosi’s predicament that The Washington Times posed in phone calls and e-mails to nearly two dozen House Democrats – members ranging from staunch antiwar lawmakers to the party’s hawks – yielded few responses aside from “no comment.”

Of the several lawmakers who were briefed, Mrs. Pelosi is the highest-ranking. She has also received a great deal of attention for being an outspoken critic of Bush anti-terrorism policies, and for conflicting accounts of her September 2002 briefing.

Pelosi’s initial claim that she was never told that the U.S. was going to waterboard terrorism suspects was contradicted by a CIA timeline leaked last week. While she raised questions about the CIA document, she did not directly dispute its account of her being informed about the use of harsh tactics on a suspect named Abu Zubaydah.

The Politico reported that an aide of Mrs. Pelosi’s was briefed in 2003 that the CIA had waterboarded Zubaydah.

Here is Pelosi denying and repeating to make it clear that she was not briefed on waterboarding.

“We were not. I repeat, re– uh — not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.”

On the February 25th, Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC  Pelosi gave an even more detailed denial.

PELOSI: No! No! The fact is they did not brief — Uh, well, first of all we’re not allowed to talk about what happens there, but — but I can say this. They did not brief us that these, um, enhanced interrogations were taking place. They did not brief us that was — They were talking about an array of, uh, uhhh, interrogations that they might have at their disposal.

MADDOW: Techniques in the abstract, as if they were not being used?

PELOSI: As — ah — uh — W-we were never told they were being used.

MADDOW: Were you told they weren’t being used?

PELOSI: Well, they just talk about them, but they — they did — they — th-th-the inference to be drawn from what they told us was that these are things that we think could be legal, and we have a difference of opinion on that. But they never told us that they were being used, because that would be a different story altogether.

The House majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) reluctantly agreed Tuesday that congressional hearings should investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s assertion that she wasn’t informed, more than six years ago, that harsh interrogation methods were used on an al-Qaeda leader.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., called Republican challenges to Pelosi’s assertion a diversion from the real question of whether the Bush administration tortured terrorist suspects. Nonetheless, he acknowledged the controversy should be resolved.

I say it’s time to waterboard Nancy Pelosi to determine truth vs. fiction. What has more stretch, Nancy Pelosi’s face or her lie on waterboarding? Indeed!

Here is more background music about the Pelosi lie:

• Investor’s Business Daily: Enhanced Lying
• HotAir: More Confirmation that Pelosi Lied
• Human Events: Pelosi Knew about Waterboarding from the Start – Jed Babbin
• NewsMax: Pelosi Lied, Briefed on Torture Memos in 2002
• National Review: Nancy’s Versions

See also: Best of the Web by James Taranto