Not briefed on the brief

There comes a time when lies, rolled in lies, get out of hand.

We've all done it. We told mom we had to work but when dad called your office you said it was a business trip but when sis called you answered the phone at home and the lies compounding the lies get out of hand.

Lying is not easy. It's an art. It requires not just a mischievous nature and willingness to deceive but a real talent for order, logic and miscalculation. And great acting.

Bill Clinton was a triumph in lying. Just recall his visit to Normandy.

Hillary was not as successful. Sniper fire in Bosnia, her own namesake- all proven to be lies. Hillary is not as good as Bill.

Nancy Pelosi is now proven to be a bad liar- which is not necessarily a bad thing. But Madam Speaker does find herself in a career damaging (and potentially a career ending) string of lies. I was at the brief but I wasn't briefed. I was informed about a briefing but was never told of the briefing. There were two briefings. The CIA is lying, not me. Bush did it.

When tricky Dick Nixon got caught in his web of lies finally the press asked the famous "what did the president know and when did he know it?". I am waiting for such bluntness from the press today.

When campaigning Senator Obama was stuck in his lies about Rev. Wright and David Ayers and Tony Rezko (and abortion and Jerusalem and Iran and, well, everything else...) he was able to skirt the issue assisted by an allied press and was never asked to fess up. But that was a campaign- and let's face it- the campaign is a glorified trailer compelling you to buy a ticket and see the movie.

Nancy Pelosi is in campaign mode but not in a campaign. Lambasting the Bush Administration and deriding the CIA may be popular in Merin County and win her support from the left, but this is Congress now and she is tempting fate with her poorly conceived lies.

What did the Speaker know and when did she know it?

The CIA will not bend over and take it. Not when they are claled liars, and not by a politically motivated politician.

nancy is in a pot of water and the gas was just turned up. Careful nancy- it could be boiling pretty quickly.