Dick Cheney's blackmail campaign against Nancy Pelosi hit another IED yesterday when Greg Sargent asked former Sen. Bob Graham whether he was briefed by the CIA about the torture of Abu Zubaydah in September 2002.

I do not have any recollection of being briefed on waterboarding or other forms of extraordinary interrogation techniques, or Abu Zubaydah being subjected to them.

Sargent adds,

Graham is the only other Dem aside from Pelosi to get briefed in 2002, so they are both in effect asserting that no Dem was briefed on the use of EITs that year. The date of the next briefing was in February 2003.

Marcy Wheeler adds,

Pelosi has said, a variety of times, that the opinions approving some interrogation techniques were discussed, but that they weren't told the techniques were going to be used or--much more importantly--had been used.  Or to put it very simply for those who still don't get this, Pelosi has been saying that CIA briefed them on the legality of using torture, but did not admit (and may have specifically denied) that they had used these torture techniques. Pelosi is making a temporal claim as much as anything else.

But Graham is making a much more expansive claim, saying techniques were not discussed in the least.

And that means the CIA broke the law:

But the big news should be what it always has been--that the Bush Administration and the CIA did not give the legally required briefing on their covert ops to Congress.

Sorry Dick - your blackmail campaign against Nancy Pelosi just backfired and exposed your stay-behinds to criminal prosecution.