1.0 link 206752 <![CDATA[Pelosi Stands By CIA Charge, Ducks Questions]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/22/pelosi-stands-by-cia-char_n_206752.html The length of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opening remarks at a press conference often correlates to the political barometric pressure level. The longer the opening, the worse the pressure.

If the Pelosi-Pressure-Correlation-Matrix is any guide, she was feeling it Friday morning. Her regular Thursday morning briefing with reporters had been pushed to Friday. Pelosi, well aware that the assembled scribes were ready to lob who-lied-to-whom-and-when questions at her, entered the room with a phalanx of what one reporter jokingly referred to...

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