Friday, February 15, 2008

WATERBOARDING IS NOT TORTURE

Joe Lieberman, who had the support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in his 2006 Democratic senatorial primary bid in Connecticut, says waterboarding is not torture.

I was appalled after listening earlier this week to an NPR account of a conversation Ari Shapiro had with AG Michael Mukasey when he made a surprise visit to Iraq (my emphasis):

Mukasey found it personally repugnant, and might consider it torture if it was done to him [!]. "In the context of a CIA interrogation it would be used on very different people in different circumstances. 'These are people who self-select for their ability to resist the technique.' "

2 comments:

  1. Mukasey's comments have a sickeningly racist subtext. I'm still angry at Schumer for voting for him.

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  2. Yeah, I even think Leahy voted for him, too!

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