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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsMukasey: Holder Should Not Tell the Truth
By Ed Brayton
Outgoing Attorney General Michael Mukasey says that his successor should keep his fingers crossed and pretend that waterboarding is not torture.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey raised concerns that government agents and national security lawyers may be at risk for criminal prosecution after his likely successor, Eric Holder, declared that waterboarding of terror detainees is torture.
He says we should lie and pretend that waterboarding is torture when it's done to our citizens but not torture when it's done by our citizens because to do otherwise might suggest that we have actually done something wrong:
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