Leahy won't support Attorney General nominee

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Source: Associated Press

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D.-Vt., the powerful chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today he won’t support Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey, potentially derailing his confirmation for refusing to define waterboarding as torture.

“No American should need a classified briefing to determine whether waterboarding is torture,” said Leahy who planned a 3 p.m. news conference to make the announcment in Burlington.

The announcement will likely determine whether the full Senate will vote to send Mukasey to a Justice Department that has been leaderless for weeks. Four Democrats on Leahy’s panel, which will decide Tuesday whether to approve Mukasey’s confirmation, have already said they will not support him.


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