However,  a recently released CIA memo shows that she was fully briefed on September 4, 2004, as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, on enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT),  including specific information describing the techniques  that had been employed to get information from the captured terrorist Abu Zabaydah.  In fact the document shows that Nancy Pelosi (D) and Porter Goss (R) were the first two representatives ever briefed on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.   

Most recently, her office has released a statement that says she was never briefed that waterboarding had been used, only that it might be used in the future and that the Bush administration had determined it to be legal.  "At this point, she appears to be trying to draw a distinction without a difference, " said one pundit.

Porter Goss (R),  and former Director of the CIA, who attended the briefing at the same time as Pelosi, has said: 

On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.

I do not recall a single objection from my colleagues. They did not vote to stop authorizing CIA funding. And for those who now reveal filed "memorandums for the record" suggesting concern, real concern should have been expressed immediately — to the committee chairs, the briefers, the House speaker or minority leader, the CIA director or the president’s national security adviser — and not quietly filed away in case the day came when the political winds shifted. And shifted they have.

Arlen Spector met with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to tell them that he had decided to join to the Democratic party, after polls showed that his vote for the massive spending and bailout bills supported by the President had made him unelectable as a Republican in his home state of Pennsylvania. 

It is rumored that  Joe Biden quipped, "Arlen, I’ve talked to the Democratic leadership about this and they have decided that you’re not welcome in our party."  Sources say that Biden admitted later that he was only kidding his long-time friend, however, the statement caused the aged Specter to immediately soil his pants.  

"We had to evacuate the Oval Office for over 30 minutes," the President chuckled according to our sources.

While the incident has been kept under wraps to spare Senator Specter any embarrisment, our sources indicate that the President was not amused and has had to once again dress down his VP pick.

Let’s examine a few examples.  Here’s a quote from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in 2001:

NOAA scientists announced today that the U.S. national temperature during the November through December two-month period was the coldest such period on record.

“Whoa, that doesn’t sound like global warming,” you might say.  Not so though, because you see that’s an example of weather not of climate.   You might also wonder about the fact that in November 2006 Eastern Australia experienced the coldest temperatures in over 100 years.   Well you’d be wrong again, because that’s not evidence of climate change.  That’s weather.   What about the record cold in Southern California this year, or the fact that the southern hemisphere was unusually cold with the first snowfall in Buenas Aires since 1918, or the record cold temperatures in Minnesota, Pennslyvania and Ohio and Seol Korea?  Weather, weather, weather not climate.  So what is an example of climate?

This year in nothern Europe, they recorded the warmest weather on record.  That is an example of climate.  “But hold on a minute,” you say, “that sounds just like the examples above.”  Not a bit of it.  This is clearly evidence of climate change, not an anomalous weather pattern.  Here let me give you another example, to clear up any confusion that might remain and to prevent you from  falling into the same intellectual trap that even some learned scientists have unwittingly fallen into.  I admit that it might be hard to understand at first, but it will all will be cleared up shortly — I promise.

A study done in 2002 showed that the Antarctic had been cooling for some time.  The study was initiated because of the unusually cold summers that had been occuring there., clearly what they were seeing was weather.   Soon after, it was discovered  that the Western Antartic ice sheets were becoming thinner, while the Eastern Antartic  Ice sheets were becoming thicker.   A later study showed that the areas around McMurdo and the Antarctic peninsula are warming.  A recent article of The Journal of Climate, by William Chapman and John Walsh found that other than the area around McMurdo and the Antartic Penninsula, there is a lack  of evidence to show any “spatially widespread warming.”  So if that is the case, then what’s really going on?  It’s really quite simple once you understand the current scientific use of weather and climate. The scientists that looked at the Western Antarctic ice sheets were seeing climate change, while the ones studying the Eastern Antarctic ice sheets were seeing weather.  Likewise, those that were studying temperatures on the Antarctic peninsula were studying climate, while Chapman and Walsh were identifying weather patterns.

So to summarize we can say that whenever temperatures fall, even for long periods of time or over wide areas, even to record lows, that  is evidence of weather, not climate.  Whenever temperatures rise, no matter how locally, or for how brief a time, that is climate.  So as even a layman can understand, global warming is without a doubt a fact.  The debate is indeed over, and you my noxious-fume belching friends are the cause.  Shame on all of  you.