Since the mainstream press seem unable to figure out what questions to pose to Speaker Pelosi concerning her claim — discredited by the recently released IG’s report — that the CIA never told her about waterboarding in fall 2002, below are a just a few questions to help the press get started:

1. Given that you were aware of the conduct for which CIA interrogators are now being investigated and possibly prosecuted, and you at least tacitly approved of such conduct, will you ask President Obama to pardon the interrogators?

2. Since you were aware of what the CIA interrogators were doing yet remained silent, are you at all complicit in their conduct?

Speaker Pelosi, assuming that you reject the IG’s report (and Leon Panetta’s assertion that the CIA told congress the truth in 2002) please respond to the following:

1. When you discovered that you were lied to in September 2002, did you confront Director Tenet? If not, why not?

2. Were the CIA personnel who lied to you in September 2002 fired and prosecuted? If not, why not?

3. When you discovered that you were lied to in September 2002 did you insist upon Congressional hearings? If not, why not?

4. On how many occasions other than the September 2002 briefing did the CIA lie to you or other members of Congress? Without disclosing classified information, what did they lie about?

a) Were the CIA personnel who lied to you fired and prosecuted? If not, why, not?

b) Did you confront Directors Tenet, Goss, or Hayden about the lies? If not, why not?

5. You claim that the Bush administration lied to you, but CIA Director Leon Panetta, an Obama appointee, says the information supplied by the CIA was accurate. Do you now maintain that the Obama administration is lying also?

6. The military has used EITs for decades to train our personnel. Why do you continue to fund these exercises?

7. In the nearly three years you’ve been Speaker, there’s no record that you’ve scheduled any hearings or sponsored any resolutions regarding the CIA’s serial misrepresentations to Congress. Given that national security is at stake, why haven’t you done so?