The dispute then is nearly identical to the one now playing out in Congress about a similar document cited by the CIA supposedly showing top Democrats receiving briefings about the Bush administration's torture program.
In May, after the CIA turned over a document to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Michigan, that contained the dates and a summary of the briefings given to a select group of congressional leaders about "EIT's" or "enhanced interrogation techniques...employed," Graham revealed that three of the four dates in which he was said to have received briefings don't match his records.
"When I asked the CIA when was I briefed, they gave me four dates, two in April and two in September of '02. On three of the four occasions, when I consulted my schedule and my notes, it was clear that no briefing had taken place, and the CIA eventually concurred in that. So their record keeping is a little bit suspect," Graham said.
Moreover, Graham said he was not told about the CIA's torture techniques, which the agency's records claim were explained to Graham and Shelby, R-Alabama.
The CIA document also alleged that Pelosi was given a full accounting of the torture program in 2002 and 2003. In May, claiming that the CIA misled her and other members of Congress, Pelosi said the CIA briefers obscured the fact that the agency already had begun subjecting prisoners to the near-drowning of waterboarding and was using other torture techniques.
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