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Mukasey Still Does Not Know If Waterboarding Is Torture | 12 comments (12 topical)

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Mukasey and waterboarding (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by azportsider on Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 08:40:47 AM EST
So Mukasey doesn't know if waterboarding constitutes torture, and is therefore illegal? In 1947 the US war crimes commission claimed no such ignorance. They charged Japanese officer Yukio Asano with the war crime of waterboarding a US civilian, convicted him, and sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor.

I'll admit Mukasey's in an impossible spot. If he agrees that waterboarding is torture, then the very man who nominated him will be on the hook for at least one war crime, though of course Bush is clearly guilty of many more than just the one war crime.

If, on the other hand, Mukasey thinks  waterboarding is acceptable behavior, then he has no right to become Attorney General because he doesn't know the law.

Mukasey Still Does Not Know If Waterboarding Is Torture | 12 comments (12 topical)

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