Frisco Nan's Accusation

You'd think Frisco Nan couldn't have ensnared herself in the tar of the CIA interrogation methods mess, after reading this post from late last month.

You would be wrong.

Last week, the Speaker's weekly gabfest, at which she parades out in front of the press, resulted in a feeding frenzy. For once, inexplicably, the liberal press began to grill Nan on the 'enhanced interrogation methods' issue.

Nan buckled and blurted out that the CIA had lied to her. She was asked pointedly about this by a reporter, and affirmed that the agency's personnel had "lied" to her.

Even liberal CIA director Leon Panetta, the administration's stooge heading up the agency, fired back at Nan, protecting his agency and its personnel.

Nan continues to exhibit her less-then-average intelligence, if you pardon the pun, in this affair.

She's now on record with about four different explanations of what she thought she knew, and when. Now she's compounded it by accusing CIA personnel of simply lying to her.

Nan seems to believe that being Speaker makes her unassailable and infallible. Sort of like Jim Wright used to behave when he was Speaker.

This time, however, Nan has made a serious miscalculation. There were others at the briefings. Her own staff member attended at least one briefing at issue. And there were minutes of the briefings. As my prior post noted, some have pointed out that, if Nan didn't voice objections to the interrogation methods at the time, then she's in a very bad position now.

Since Nan threw down the gauntlet and accused the CIA of lying, it's a fairly simple matter to now investigate just who is lying. If it's not the CIA, then it has to be Frisco Nan. There's no other conclusion anymore.

Could the House Democratic blue dogs eventually call for her resignation as Speaker if Nan is shown to be the liar?