politico.com - 1/19/2009
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Signaling sharp breaks from the current admin, Holder declares that waterboarding is torture and says that Gitmo will be closed as quickly as possible.
thinkprogress.org - 1/15/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
In October 2007, during his confirmation hearings, Attorney
General Michael Mukasey refused to call waterboarding torture and...
to this day has not called it torture. In his confirmation hearing today, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder clearly said ...
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Holder breaks with Mukasey, says ‘waterboarding is torture.’
julescrittenden.com - 1/12/2009
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julescrittenden.com —
« That Turn The Other Cheek Thing Uh
Oh » Waterboarding Gets Allah’s vote. ABC : A...
leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary. In the first ...
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... ) a certain self-righteousness that permits him to rationalize almost anything. Once we are defined as good, then anything we do is not only allowable but also right and necessary. Think of the deceit leading up to the Iraq war, which in most moral systems would qualify as evil. Think of not only authorizing torture but seeing it as somehow noble. Think of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Some political or moral thinkers would see such apparent aberrations as evidence that sometimes, in pursuit of the good, we have to use tactics that are not strictly moral but can be justified on ...
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Holder: Waterboarding is torture
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General designate Eric Holder said Thursday "waterboarding is torture" and a violation of the Geneva Conventions during his
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Eric Holder States That Waterboarding Is Torture
stoptheaclu.com 1/17/2009 — From his confirmation hearings
Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. forcefully broke from the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies Thursday, declaring that waterboarding is torture and pledging to prosecute some Guantanamo Bay detainees ...
Obama Says Waterboarding is Torture
globalsecurity.org 5/9/2009 — Washington 30 April 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama says the practice known as "waterboarding", or simulated drowning, used on certain high-level terrorist suspects under the Bush administration is torture. At a prime-time news conference late ...
Obama: I Believe Waterboarding Is Torture
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/30/2009 — ABC's Jake Tapper just asked Obama if he thought that the Bush administration "sanctioned torture" in its use of waterboarding and Obama, after a moment's hesitation, said "Waterboarding violates our ideals and our values. I do believe that it's ...
Obama news conference: 'Waterboarding is torture'
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/30/2009 — In answer to a question about waterboarding and whether it violates the Geneva Conventions, Obama is unequivocal: “Waterboarding is torture.”
He adds: “Waterboarding violates our ideals and our values. I do believe it’s torture. That is not just ...
When The Washington Post Calls Waterboarding "Torture"
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 4/1/2009 — When it's done by the Khmer Rouge : His victims -- most of whom were either disgraced members of the Khmer Rouge or their families -- were tortured with electric shocks, waterboarding or beating to extract a confession, which would implicate new ...
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