Pelosi Tries to Get Past Torture

Dispute Drowns Out Agenda

• By Tory Newmyer
• Roll Call Staff
• May 18, 2009, Midnight

It was a lonely week at the top for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a leader accustomed to keeping her own counsel and lately at the center of a controversy over what she knew, and when, about Bush-era interrogation tactics that has pitted her against the CIA.