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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 07:55 AM
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Mukasey text doesn't include torture(hearing today before Sen Judiciary Comm)
Source: AP

WASHINGTON --Attorney General Michael Mukasey successfully sidestepped the biggest question of his confirmation hearing last fall: whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture.

Now that's he's in office, Mukasey isn't rushing to Capitol Hill with an answer.

Mukasey's prepared testimony for Wednesday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee does not mention the controversial interrogation technique, which simulates drowning. During his confirmation hearing, he told lawmakers he didn't know enough about the technique and had not read classified documents about how CIA officers conduct interrogations.

"If it amounts to torture, it is not constitutional," Mukasey said at the time, prompting consternation from some lawmakers.



Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/259767.html
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:00 AM
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1. IF...IF.... the lies about the lies to protect the lying war criminals
IF torture is happening
IF water-boarding is torture

All the while, every single person using that IF is doing nothing more than protecting the guilty

Pretending it isn't happening by using IF

Pretending they would actually do something about it, IF it was happening

and far too many doormat Americans are willing to buy into it







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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 06:28 PM
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6. If??????
But he still won't be prosecuted.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 06:30 PM
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7. You haven't noticed how often the word "if" is used when
government is talking about torture?

I know he won't be prosecuted...none of them will. That won't stop me from calling them on their lies.
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Deny and Shred Donating Member (453 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 09:34 AM
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2. Here comes the hurdy-gurdy man - covering wrongs and lies
I listened to his confirmation hearings, and thought he was intelligent. In retro, anyone after Gonzo would have come off well. Right up to the WB questions, he was giving many good answers, acting like an arbiter of law, not just a mouthpiece. In the back of my mind, I knew it was a ruse ...

"Mukasey also urges lawmakers to pass permanent changes to an electronic surveillance law that soon expires." Why is the AG pushing policy? Shouldn't he be looking into whether or not the TeleComs are guilty, not how to shield them from prosecution through retroactive immunity?

He's just another puppet doing a little act for the veneer of legitimacy and legality. Get him a hurdy-gurdy - Monkeysey
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 09:44 AM
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3. If he takes this long....to decide....he should not be the AG..this is embarrassing
He ends up looking like a Fool and a Puppet for the Bushits.....What is his Problem with IF???

Will the Coward have it done to HIM???? so that he might see/feel for himself whether or not WB is Torture???

Some Dems would gladly arrange the deal for him....
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 02:19 PM
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5. it has take too long already which means that he has decided
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 10:54 AM
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4. I see Diane and Chuck - one standing on each side with their
hands patting him on the back and everyone is smiling as they pose for the camera.
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