Mukasey won't comment on waterboarding (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Posted on Tue, Jan. 29, 2008

Mukasey won't comment on waterboarding

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey
said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether
the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding is
illegal, digging in against critics who want the
Bush administration to define it as torture.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick
Leahy, Mukasey said he has finished a review of
Justice Department memos about the CIA's current
methods of interrogating terror suspects and finds
them to be lawful. He said waterboarding currently
is not used by the spy agency.

Since waterboarding is not part of what Mukasey
described as a "limited set of methods" used by
interrogators now, the attorney general said he
would not rule on whether it is illegal.

"I understand that you and some other members of
the (Judiciary) Committee may feel that I should
go further in my review, and answer questions
concerning the legality of waterboarding under
current law," Mukasey wrote in his three-page
letter to Leahy, D-Vt. "I understand the strong
interest in this question, but I do not think it
would be responsible for me, as attorney general,
to provide an answer."

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[peacebird]

1. a big THANK YOU to DiFi and everyone else who voted for Mukasey....

:sarcasm:
INCLUDING Clinton and Obama who BOTH skipped the vote....

guess there was some more pressing, important business to tend to...

:grr:

[rwheeler31]

2. Oh great we have a judge wo can't decide. What a tool.