Tom Daschle. Jay Rockefeller. And now Nancy Pelosi.
That makes three members of the Gang of Eight — the bipartisan congressional leadership briefed about President Bush’s warrantless surveillance — to dispute Alberto Gonzales’s testimony that the Gang demanded the surveillance continue after a March 2004 briefing telling them that acting Attorney General James Comey refused to reauthorize the program.
“She made clear her disagreement with the program continuing despite Comey’s objection,” Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly tells TPMmuckraker. Pelosi was part of the Gang of Eight in her capacity as House Democratic leader in 2004.
So far we’re waiting to hear back from GOP members of the Gang of Eight, as well as Jane Harman, then the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee.