But he'll be confirmed anyway, because DemocraPs are dickless!
"Panel Pushes for Nominee to Denounce Technique" by PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 — All 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday for a clear-cut statement that the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, which simulates drowning and has been used by the C.I.A. against terrorism suspects, is illegal.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the committee’s chairman, and the panel’s other nine Democrats, in their letter to Mr. Mukasey on Tuesday:
"[We find it surprising that you are unfamiliar with waterboarding since it has been the subject of much public discussion [and asserted that] your unwillingness to state that waterboarding is illegal may place Americans at risk of being subject to this abusive technique.
Please respond to the following question: Is the use of waterboarding, or inducing the misperception of drowning, as an interrogation technique illegal under U.S. law, including treaty obligations?”
The senators requested a “prompt response” since Mr. Mukasey’s nomination is still before the committee.
A White House spokesman, Tony Fratto, said Mr. Mukasey could not comment on details of interrogation techniques because “he has not been read into classified intelligence programs, and he won’t be read in until he is confirmed as attorney general.”
[Known as EXTORTION! Isn't that illegal?
At least it's not torture, is it, Muk? Muk?
Hello?]
It is still widely expected that Mukasey will be confirmed to the Justice Department job.
[So this is all HOT FART MIST, huh?]
In their letter, the Democrats noted that senior American military officers and lawmakers had often described waterboarding as torture. In the past, the State Department has criticized other countries for carrying out the practice.
[Nothing like being TOTAL HYPOCRITES!]
Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who championed legislation to outlaw inhumane interrogation techniques and was himself tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has described waterboarding as “very exquisite torture.”
Intelligence officials have reported that the C.I.A. used waterboarding on leaders of the Qaeda terror network apprehended after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The White House has suggested it has stopped subjecting suspects to such harsh interrogation techniques as a result of complaints from Mr. McCain and others in Congress, although it has not said that explicitly.
[And even if they did, so what? They would still TORTURE in SECRET!]
In waterboarding, suspects are restrained on a platform with a cloth or cellophane placed over their heads; water is then poured over the cloth, creating the sensation of drowning. Military and intelligence historians say the practice dates to the Spanish Inquisition. After World War II, the United States prosecuted Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American prisoners.
[If that's not torture, then maybe the administration and Congress wouldn't mind taking a spin on the "waterboard," huh?
You PROUD to be just like the Japanese you fought, WWIIers?!
You PROUD, Amurka?!]
Mukasey, when asked at his confirmation hearing if waterboarding was torture, replied:
“I don’t know.”
[Then you DON'T GET the JOB, right, DemocraPs?!
Pffffftttttt!!!]
