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10-31-2007 8:39 PM346 views
Bodark says:
Waterboarding is a torture technique. Period.
The next U. S. Attorney General should say those same words, and it's not going to the Michael Mukasey.
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10-31-2007 9:05 PM
curlytwo
Questioner: "He [AG nominee Mukasey] said he didn't know if waterboarding is torture."

Giuliani: "Well, I'm not sure it is either. I'm not sure it is either. It depends on how it's done. It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it. I think the way it's been defined in the media, it shouldn't be done. The way in which they have described it, particularly in the liberal media. So I would say, if that's the description of it, then I can agree, that it shouldn't be done. But I have to see what the real description of it is. Because I've learned something being in public life as long as I have. And I hate to shock anybody with this, but the newspapers don't always describe it accu...
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10-31-2007 10:14 PM
jstates1
Well, at least in the quote you mention, Giuliani makes a good point; our media is highly sensationalist, and if you're getting you information from them, you're probably being brainwashed.

I think, however, that if "waterboarding" (whatever you may take that to mean) is a method which can be used to "extract information," then it is torture. Unless it is just so fun that interrogatees beg to be waterboarded and freely offer information in exchange. Which is highly unlikely.
11-3-2007 1:31 PM
Rasmus
Bush Is Right to Worry If Waterboarding Is Defined as Torture

We should take the criminality of the Bush administration's torture policy seriously, and that means making sure they are not above the law.

(Also: A waterboarding simulation photoseries.)
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