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The Toronto Star has an extremely graphic photo (h/t How Appealing and Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald ) of Omar Khadr, the 21-year-old Canadian at Guantanamo Bay, apparently being treated by U.S. soldiers after being injured in a firefight. In a Read More...
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When I heard what Michelle Obama said , I thought uh-oh, classic Di Kinsley an gaffe: She said something true but unflattering, and thus a total no-no for someone in her position; that's why they call it impolitic. I also assumed she was talking about Read More...
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Remember back when we didn’t believe in torturing people? Turns out it's way more interesting to reopen the whole question and bicker with the umps about their recent calls. Let’s go to the telestrator : Out on the field this week, we have Sen. Joe Lieberman, Read More...
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Reading the story about the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes that Dahlia points to , I couldn't help being struck by an eerie parallel. This story is unfolding a couple of days after the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the latest case about Read More...
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Remember that whole big legal debate we were having last month about water-boarding ? Remember when we were trying to understand why Michael Mukasey wouldn’t just come out and say water-boarding is torture? Remember when everyone thought the Bush administration Read More...
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Via Think Progress, we learn that at a speech last night at the University of Colorado, former Attorney General John Ashcroft answered a question about his willingness to undergo waterboarding . He told his audience, “ the things that I can survive, if Read More...
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How inopportune for the Democrats that the face of their fund-raising efforts in the Senate is New York's Chuck Schumer, of Michael Mukasey fame . "Slightly better on water-boarding,'' is not much of a rallying cry, and liberal activists are urging those Read More...
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Hillary jumps the same way as Obama: "I am deeply troubled by Judge Mukasey’s continued unwillingness to clearly state his views on torture and unchecked Executive power. The Attorney General is the chief defender of the rule of law in our country. After Read More...
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In a press release today, Obama said of Mukasey: “While his legal credentials are strong, his views on two critical and related matters are, in my view, disqualifying. We don't need another attorney general who believes that the President enjoys an unwritten Read More...
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If Mukasey does say now that waterboarding is torture, should that be enough for the Democrats to wave him through? What about his testimony on the presidents power to act outside statutory boundaries with regard to interrogation and wiretapping? And Read More...
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After Phil and I wracked our brains to understand why Michael Mukasey wouldn’t just admit that waterboarding is torture, and in light of Rudy Giuliani’s weaselly parsing of the same question , it’s heartening to read this morning – via the AP -- that Read More...
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Here's what Giuliani has to say about waterboarding, in reponse to a question about AG-choice Mukasey's refusal to say that the tactic amounts to torture: “Well, I’m not sure it is either. It depends on how it’s done. It depends on the circumstances. Read More...
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