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: Law Blog - WSJ.comHolder to Senate Judiciary Committee: ?Waterboarding is Torture?
By Dan Slater
Remember the waterboarding imbroglio at Attorney General Mukasey’s 2007 confirmation hearing? Senate Democrats suggested they may not approve Mukasey because he declined to declare the interrogation technique — which amounts to simulated drowning — illegal.
“I don’t know what’s involved in the technique,” Mukasey said. “If waterboarding is torture, torture is not constitutional.”
The Journal’s Evan Perez, who’s on site today at AG-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation, reports that Holder dispensed with that issue, post-haste. Responding to a question from Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder said “waterboarding is torture.”
Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).
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