Thursday, January 31, 2008

Mukasey Admits Waterboarding is Torture

But only if it is performed on him!!!

Good Lord!


This the top cop in Amerika?

Just another DemocraPic disappointment for us, readers.


"Mukasey Will Not Rule Out Waterboarding" by PHILIP SHENON

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said Wednesday that while he would consider it torture if he underwent the harsh Central Intelligence Agency interrogation technique known as waterboarding, the practice was not necessarily illegal, and he would not rule out its use in the future.

Under sometimes angry questioning from Democrats at his first oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Mukasey found himself caught in the debate that nearly derailed his confirmation last fall: whether waterboarding is torture.

Would waterboarding be torture if it were done to you?” asked Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, glowering at Mr. Mukasey.

I would feel that it was,” Mr. Mukasey acknowledged in the low monotone that he uses in virtually all public settings.

But the attorney general, a retired federal judge, would not be drawn into a larger conversation with Senator Kennedy or other Democrats over whether waterboarding might amount to torture if it was carried out on others, including American citizens held abroad....

At the hearing Wednesday, several senators from both parties praised Mr. Mukasey....

Pffffffttt!

Washington is hopeless, readers.

The American people are going to have to topple this government, readers.

I truly see no other way out.

The politicians and MSM are simply NOT LISTENING TO US!!!!


When the subject returned to waterboarding, there was especially tough questioning by Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who had initially championed Mr. Mukasey’s nomination and has sometimes defended his performance when other Democrats have not.

The senator appeared exasperated by Mr. Mukasey’s refusal to say whether waterboarding was torture and should be outlawed, despite the attorney general’s statement during his confirmation hearings that he found the technique “repugnant.”

“I find it hard to understand how you personally, when asked for advice, would not be able to say that something that’s repugnant should be outlawed,” Mr. Schumer said. “You said it’s repugnant. I don’t understand how you can now say, Well, I have to ask a whole lot of other people.”

Well, YOU RECOMMENDED HIM, Chuck!

These guys are unbelievable!

They act like we are stupid out here and don't remember a damn thing!