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Holder's View Worrisome to Mukasey

 

Published 1/16/2009 at WSJ.com: Politics And Policy

Attorney General Mukasey raised concerns that U.S. agents may be at risk for criminal prosecution after his likely successor declared that waterboarding of terror detainees is torture. (link)

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