SENATE JUDICIARY HEARING TODAY: DOJ oversight, Mukasey to testify

[MiniMe]

No house session today, so it will be on cspan at 10am.

cspan: http://www.cspan.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

Yay, we can watch it on cable if we are home. Finally a hearing on cspan.

NOTICE OF FULL COMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice” for Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 216 of the Senate Hart Office Building.

By order of the Chairman

Witness List

Hearing before the
Senate Judiciary Committee

on

“Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice”

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Hart Senate Office Building Room 216
10:00 a.m.


The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice
Washington, DC

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[bdamomma]

2. thanks minime!!!

should be interesting Mukasey another tool of *. sickening.

[MiniMe]

3. The questions could be interesting

The answers of course will all be non-answers.

[annabanana]

4. He hasn't been there long enough to "forget" everything... so...

I'm guessing it will all be "I'll have to look that up and get back to you". . and "I can't answer because there's an internal investigation that I don't want to compromise"

What else can he say?

[Solly Mack]

5. It wouldn't be responsible (he already said it wouldn't be responsible to

answer IF water-boarding is torture)

"I understand the strong interest in this question, but I do not think it would be responsible for me, as attorney general, to provide an answer."

So the chief law enforcement officer of the US doesn't feel it would be responsible to call torture torture


edit to get correct quote

[MiniMe]

6. small bump

Hearing in 45 minutes

[Solly Mack]

7. I'm making fresh coffee for it

Getting all comfy

Digging out my nerf ball to throw at my monitor...

[DemReadingDU]

12. Estimated time: 5 hours

:)

[MiniMe]

8. They just said on Washington Journal that this will be heavy on Waterboarding

They are not satisfied with Mukasey's answer to their previous questions.

[DemReadingDU]

9. Thank you

[DemReadingDU]

10. bump up

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Mukasey claims he doesn't have to rule on legality of waterboarding

because it's not being used anymore.

:banghead:

[Deny and Shred]

13. When did he say that?

I never heard that lame excuse, not that I doubt he's used it.

Please, Dem Senators, grill him tirelessly on Cheney's missing e-mails. There was a court order he clearly violated - don't let Monkeysey off the hook!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. Voila!

Mukasey Refuses to Judge Waterboarding

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h0HzC22rsazNY3EH2NhxMtOE-1agD8UG94GG0