Skip to main content

Senate Judiciary Committee will approve attorney who deny torture is not torture.

Waterboarding stance may hurt Mukasey confirmation - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Retired U.S. District Judge Michael B. Mukasey's nomination as attorney general may have run into unexpected trouble yesterday after his refusal last week to say whether the interrogation practice of waterboarding constituted torture."

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Broken Spring?       : Information Clearing House

Broken Spring?       : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
Post a Comment
Read more