Posted on 01/30/2008 11:24:25 PM PST by bshomoic
US attorney general hints at Bush's permission for torture
Elana Schor in Washington Wednesday January 30, 2008 Guardian Unlimited
Under questioning from a Democratic senator, US attorney general Michael Mukasey today suggested that George Bush might have personally authorised the waterboarding of suspected terrorists.
Mukasey immediately corrected himself to say that he was not permitted to discuss past events. But in describing the process by which the CIA could seek legal clearance to resume waterboarding, he appeared to tie the president to the controversial technique.
When Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein asked if the current path to authorising waterboarding - a request from the CIA director, followed by approval from the attorney general, followed by consultation with the president - had applied in the past, Mukasey said yes.
"I should take a step back," he then added. "I'm not authorised to say what happened in the past, but I was told this wasn't news."
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1)It’s not news.
2)This is The Guardian, nothing interesting to see here people.
If Bush didn’t approve of water bordering, I would think he wasn’t doing his job. The dems would acuse him of going easy on terrorists also.
On that aspect of the war, Bush has done the right thing and these hearings are a complete farce.
If Bush authorized it, tickling with feathers would be torture to these people. One thing you have to give the lefties, they never stop pounding a lie. The put out the lie and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. Just to give credit where credit is due, Hitler said he learned this technique from the German Socialist movement. He modeled his party on the German Social Democrat Party. As Jonah Goldberg points out in his new book, “Liberal Fascism”, nazism and fascism were both left-wing movements arising out of socialism. It takes a village to make a lie stick.
Ted Kennedy challenging anybody on anything related to *water* is a travesty. He ought to recuse himself from the committee. Actually he should be in jail for homicide.
Well, it’s now clear the rats have a firm hold on both parties. We keep getting the one or two issue (favorable to our view) guys, and everything else goes to hell in four or eight years.
Hmmmm, why doesn’t our nation move more toward the right? I just don’t know...
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