House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted that she did know about waterboarding in 2003, but still claims that she was not “fully” briefed by the CIA and that they had mislead her. CIA Director Leon E. Panetta countered with the statement that it is not the agency’s “policy or practice to mislead Congress.” According to the Washington Times:

Mrs. Pelosi has been under fire for her conflicting stories since CIA documents released last week indicated the agency briefed her Sept. 4, 2002, on specific interrogation techniques used on Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al Qaeda terrorist held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention site.

Trying to contain the dispute, Mrs. Pelosi Friday said her criticisms were aimed at the Bush administration officials who she said tried to conceal the interrogation policies, and not at the CIA.

This is about the fifth time that Ms. Pelosi has changed her story. She gets a little flustered in this video of one of her recent press conferences: