Not satisfied with yesterday's rant regarding Nancy Pelosi, in which he said she "absolutely should be investigated", thrice married and newly minted Catholic ex-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich decided to push his point further today in a CNN interview, stating that she could be censured and were that to happen, should quit as Speaker of the House:
Newt Gingrich continued his attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Saturday, saying she "defamed everyone" in the intelligence community and he can't "see how she can serve as speaker if it turns out that she has lied about national security both to the House and to the rest of the country."
"I would expect at that point a motion of censure, and I think under the rules of the House, you can't serve for the rest of that term if you've been censured," Gingrich, a former Republican speaker of the House, said in an interview with CNN.
Was it only a year since they sat together for a common cause?
Boy, talk about "climate change"...
Every day, the media ia getting further away from the real story of Dick Cheney's waterboarding crimes...
More below, including interesting words from the sole Democrat standing up for Nancy Pelosi- former FL Dem Senator Bob Graham...
Kudos to MSNBC's David Schuster for this important interview:
Funny how MSM- for the most part- isn't listening to Graham, who on NPR tells an interesting story regarding events in 2002:
"Several weeks ago, when this issue started to bubble up, I called the CIA and askedasked for the dates in which I had been briefed," Graham tells Robert Siegel. "They gave me four: two in April of '02, two in September."Graham says he consulted his logs "and determined that on three of the four dates there was no briefing held."
He adds: "On one date, Sept. 27, '02, there was a briefing held and, according to my notes, it was on the topic of detainee interrogation."
Graham says the CIA was initially reticent when he told the agency what he had found in his notes.
"They said, 'We will check and call back,'" Graham recalled. "When they finally did a few days later, they indicated that I was correct. Their information was in error. There was no briefing on the first three of four dates."
Graham says the agency offered no explanation regarding how it came up with the other dates.
Gee, Newt- maybe instead of screaming for Pelosi's resignation, you should keep quiet?
Graham also explains that when he was briefed by the CIA, the agency did not bring up waterboarding at all.But that's not all. Graham also added an important point in this interview with NPR yesterday: Context.
In the same period as the CIA briefing of Pelosi and the one and only CIA briefing of Graham, the CIA was promulgating an erroneous National Intelligence Estimate on the purported existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As Graham put it, the CIA at the time was not "following the admonition to speak truth to power" but was rather "trying to speak what it thought power wanted to hear."
So what we have here is the Speaker of the House explaining that she was not briefed on waterboarding in September 2002 when she was the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, while the CIA says that around the same time as it was trying to sell Congress and the nation on the notion that Iraq had WMDs it told her about waterboarding.
What we also have it the then-Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee saying that he was not briefed on waterboarding during his (separate) meeting with the CIA, and that, what's more, the CIA was not truthful to him in recent weeks about the extent of the briefings he received from the agency.
Okay, so bring on the investigation, Newt- but I really don't think you're gonna like the net results as much as you think...
Related: Monty Python Explains The Cheney Waterboarding Scandal and Ongoing Pelosi Smokescreen
According to information released SaturSaturday by the Florida Department of Corrections: During "Take Our Children to Work Day" events at three prison facilities, 43 children were hit with stun guns while others were exposed to tear gas."Three prison guards have been fired, two have resigned and 16 more employees - from corrections officers to a warden - will be disciplined due to the incidents that unfolded April 23, said DOC Secretary Walt McNeil," reported The Miami Herald. "An investigation is ongoing.
"None of the children in any of the incidents required medical attention or was notably harmed, McNeil said. He said the children, who ranged in age from 5 to 17, were all children of prison officials." "The jolt sent at least two of them sprawling to the floor, crying out in pain and clutching at agonizing burns on their arms. One child ended up in hospital," reported the Mail Online.
Ah, I'm reminiscing on Greeley, Colorado this weekend.
Well, So here's a fun kind of diary post I saved for our more lax weekends -- the hilarity of exchanging fan photos with Beth Karas. She's someone whose work I highly respect, and she's now someone I count as a friend.
When we were in Greeley, a fan of her's came up to her at one point while we were discussing the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial. The fan wanted an autographed photo, so Beth went into the TruTV In Session trailer and retrieved a photo for the fan, and autographed it. Well, as long as Beth had the photos out, of course I asked for one!
The autograph (made with a silver Sharpie):
To Autumn -You're a highlight of the trial - stay in touch always
Love,
Beth
So kewl. 
Well, I promised that I would send her a reciprocally signed, 8" x 10" "fan photo" of me in my women's Dress Blue Navy Uniform when I got back home to San Diego. Well, I followed through on that promise last week...
[Below the fold is my autographed, "fan photo" that I sent to Beth.]
The autograph (I actually bought a silver Sharpie just for this autograph):
To Beth -The most wonderful thing about the Angie Zapata Trial was meeting you!
Stay friends always,
Autumn
And, of course, I meant what I wrote. Beth means an awful lot to me as a friend. And apparently, she thinks a lot of me -- she put the photo of me up in her office. How kewl is that? 
Pretty fun, that's the first autographed photo of me I've ever sent anyone -- it feels pretty kewl to have Beth Karas as a fan.
Beth doesn't just write about law, by the way. She has a somewhat sad, yet wonderful and thoughtful piece up on CNN, entitled Remembering two precious brothers and all who suffer MPS. It's worth the read.
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And by the way, considering how expensive that 8" x 10" photo was for me, y'all shouldn't expect to get an autographed photo of me in the mail any time soon. TruTV In Session is paying for Beth's fan photos, whereas my "fan photo" to Beth was paid for out of my personal pocketbook. It was expensive too, costing me between $15 or $20 that photo to her. 
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