politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 1/15/2009
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Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. declared Thursday that waterboarding is torture, forcefully breaking from years in which the Justice Department deftly avoided the sensitive question about U.S. interrogation methods.
Holder: 'Waterboarding is torture'
politico.com 1/19/2009 — Signaling sharp breaks from the current admin, Holder declares that waterboarding is torture and says that Gitmo will be closed as quickly as possible.
Holder: Waterboarding is torture
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 1/16/2009 — Holder said Wednesday Waterboarding is torture.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General designate Eric Holder said Thursday "waterboarding is torture" and a violation of the Geneva Conventions during his
confirmation hearing before the Senate ...
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 ...
Waterboarding
julescrittenden.com 1/12/2009 — « 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 ...
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 ...
Four farewells and a hello —
CNN Political Ticker 1/15/2009
Amid all the farewells is a hello. Roland Burris is scheduled to be sworn in Thursday as the junior Senator from Illinois.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – It's a day of four farewells and a hello here in the nation's capitol.
President Bush goes in front ...
Welcome to the Majors, Mr. Burris —
First Read 1/15/2009
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Sixteen days after embattled (and now impeached) Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich defied Democratic Senate leadership, among others, and appointed Roland Burris -- the equivalent of a journeyman Minor ...
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