In 2004, Chuck Schumer Supported the Right of Bush to Use Torture at His Discretion.

[kpete]

If you’re wondering why Schumer is sticking with Mukasey, despite a grassroots revolt among many Democrats, it’s because Chuck is on record in support of Bush having the right to torture.

But don’t trust us.

Here’s what Schumer, himself, had to say in a 2004 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with then Attorney General John Ashcroft:

So it's easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in the foxhole, it's a very different deal.

And I respect -- I think we all respect the fact that the president's in the foxhole every day. So he can hardly be blamed for asking you or his White House counsel or the Department of Defense to figure out when it comes to torture, what the law allows and when the law allows it and what there is permission to do. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25211-2004Jun8.html

Of course, the problem is that Bush picks people who will interpret to the law to allow him to torture, which the law does not allow him to do (nor does it allow him to outsource the torture to other nations). In fact, it is a war crime.

Chuck Schumer knows all this.

more at:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/230

[DCKit]

1. The pResident is in a foxhole every day?????

Only in his own alternative reality.

Thanks Chuck.

[Bozita]

2. I'll bet he's wearing a real neat war hero soldier costume from that double secret, hope-to-die ...

... hidden closet.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Note to the esteemed Senator Schumer: Most of what the Nazis did was "legal".

Hiding behind "legality" didn't work very well for the criminals tried at Nuremberg.

[OzarkDem]

4. One problem with Schumer's reasoning

Torture doesn't work. The military no longer used it as a means of getting information until the Bush administration took over and began demanding it.

One would think Schumer knows that.

[defendandprotect]

5. Schumer is a thoughtless jerk --- the kind of Democrat we don't need --- !!!!

[AuntPatsy]

6. Thanks for taking the time to remind people of the facts as they are.

[valerief]

7. Of course, because he's Republican Democrat. nt

[cali]

8. Ugh.

I've never been a big fan of Schumer's but tht comment on top of his vote for Mukasey makes it perfectly clear who he is. I fervently hope, that all the disgust with him, makes him at least a little uncomfortable. And i just as fervently hope that he never gets hold of that gavel he lusts after.

[Vadem]

9. OK, then! It is time for Chuck Schumer to go..... agreed????.....

I will work for a Democratic liberal candidate to run against Chuck Schumer! Anyone else with me? We have GOT to stop supporting these Nazis in DINO clothing, calling themselves Democrats!!!!

[Cha]

10. chuckles is just a torture kinda guy.

New Yorkers would do well to get rid of him and get someone in there who stands up for Democratic Principles.

Follow the money..who's funding, chuckie?

[Agony]

11. Can you say Neocon?

Ask yourself this. Do you want to support a Democrat who is a member of the new PNAC?

What the hell am I talking about? ---->http://www.defenddemocracy.org/biographies/biographies.htm

Oh what nice company he keeps! Fucking Richard Perle!? Fucking Zell Miller? .......Fucking Lieberman!!!!!?

So...am I surprised at the Mukasey thing? Nope...

Does Schumer have to go? Yup!

[magellan]

13. Nice find

Another reminder that Neoconservatism isn't a political party; it's an ideology. And there aren't any surprises for me in the names listed there.

[Land Shark]

12. k&P

[Solly Mack]

14. Schumer should be tried right along with the Bush admin.

Those who enable and provide legal cover are just as guilty.

And not just Schumer

Congress has its share of enablers and those who helped to provide legal cover

[Heywood J]

15. It's kind of sad that living in New York,

with Chuck "Torture Me" Schumer, Hillary "The Triangulator" Clinton, and Thomas "Pedophile Enabler" Reynolds representing me, I could be potentially considered to be in a red state...

[2 Much Tribulation]

16. This whole torture "issue" is so cut and dried it may bring America down for decades. nt K&R

[spanone]

17. if the prez is in the foxhole everyday, chuck, it's all the more reason to obey the law.