Mukasey won’t comment on waterboarding
Roseburg News-Review
01/30/08
Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is illegal, digging in against critics who want the Bush administration to define it as torture. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, Mukasey said he has finished a review of Justice Department memos about the CIA’s current methods of interrogating terror suspects and finds them to be lawful. He said waterboarding currently is not used by the spy agency...
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01/30/08
Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is illegal, digging in against critics who want the Bush administration to define it as torture. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, Mukasey said he has finished a review of Justice Department memos about the CIA’s current methods of interrogating terror suspects and finds them to be lawful. He said waterboarding currently is not used by the spy agency...
http://tinyurl.com/3e5yf5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Leahy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
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rudkla - 30. Jan, 10:54
