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Truthout's Executive Director Marc Ash writes: "On the day that Senator Charles Schumer used his vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee to all but assure that George W. Bush's latest pick, Michael B. Mukasey for attorney general, would be confirmed, The New York Times obliged him by publishing - in a featured Op-Ed - his reasons for doing so. The Times did not see fit to publicize any other senator's thoughts on the matter. That is fitting, because the only voice that mattered in the end was Chuck Schumer's."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110707J.shtml



Democrats Hit Out at Mukasey's Torture Pledge

Manu Raju reports for The Hill, "Senate Democrats on Tuesday pilloried Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey for his assurances to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) that he would enforce a law to prohibit waterboarding if Congress were to enact such a measure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110707L.shtml



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