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Holder breaks with Mukasey, says ‘waterboarding is torture.’
Think Progress —
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 that he believes waterboarding is torture:
HOLDER: If you look at the history of the use of that technique, used by the Khmer Rouge, used in the Inquisition, used by the Japanese and prosecuted by us as war crimes. We prosecuted our own soldiers for using it in Vietnam. I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, waterboarding is torture.
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Holder answers the waterboarding question
Political Animal —
HOLDER ANSWERS THE WATERBOARDING QUESTION.... When Alberto Gonzales was the nominee for Attorney General, he went to great lengths to avoid describing waterboarding as torture, or even addressing whether the practice is legal. Michael Mukasey's A.G. nomination was nearly detailed by his unwillingness to address similar questions. It wasn't a trick question. Today, Eric Holder answered it . Holder's response was both unequivocal and encouraging: "If you look at the history of the use of that technique, used by the Khmer Rouge, used in the Inquisition, used by the Japanese and prosecuted by us as war crimes. We prosecuted our own soldiers for using it in ...
Some Drama For Obama-- Bush Must Be Charged With Torture Now
DownWithTyranny! —
I don't have an illusions about Bush and Cheney being shipped off to the Hague for a war crimes trial-- let alone seeing them tried for their criminal regime here in America. But I was actually shocked at the inescapable implications of Eric Holder's testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. He was unequivocal about his belief-- which is in sync with the rest of humanity's-- that waterboarding is torture. Addressing the subject of torture at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Mr. Holder told Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the committee chairman, “Waterboarding is torture.” It was so defined ...
Obama Administration Defends Rummie In Torture Lawsuit
Newshoggers.com —
By Steve Hynd
Color me disgusted. The Obama administration is defending Donald Rumsfield in a lawsuit brought by victims of torture and is using essentially the same defense it is employing in a similiar lawsuit against lawyer/enabler John Yoo.
Dismissed at the urging of the Bush administration, the case was appealed to the ...
