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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.
youtube.com - 1/15/2009
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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« 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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