Let The Eagle Soar: Ashcroft "hearts" waterboarding. USA! USA! USA! USA!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

updated 1:48 p.m. EDT, Thu July 17, 2008

Ashcroft defends waterboarding before House panel

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/ashcroft.waterboarding/index.html



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a "valuable" purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney General John Ashcroft told a House committee Thursday.

Testifying on the Bush administration's interrogation rules before the House Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft defended the technique while answering a question from Rep. Howard Coble, R-North Carolina.

"Waterboarding, as we all know, is a controversial issue. Do you think it served a beneficial purpose?" the congressman asked.

"The reports that I have heard, and I have no reason to disbelieve them, indicate that they were very valuable," Ashcroft said, adding that CIA Director George Tenet indicated the "value of the information received from the use of enhanced interrogation techniques -- I don't know whether he was saying waterboarding or not, but assume that he was for a moment -- the value of that information exceeded the value of information that was received from all other sources."

[muntrv]

1. Waterboard Asscraft!! Clean the Crisco off his body!!

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[Lint Head]

2. He is a lying fuck and he even knows it.

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[bdamomma]

3. Ashcroft just covering up for this whole regime.