Comments on: Dems: Mukasey Ducking Waterboarding Issue

Attorney General Refuses To Say Whether Harsh Interrogation Tactic Is Torture Or Legal

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by sophielhu

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[brianbwb-2009]

"Attorney General Won''t Publicly Say Whether Interrogation Tactic Is Torture Or Legal"

It is not his right to decide, as controlled drowning has been recognized as torture since the Spanish Inquisition, and American soldiers from WW2 and Vietnam have already been tried and found guilty of torture from it. It is a clear violation of the Geneva Convention, and just because Bush calls POWs "enemy combatants" does not change the history of torture, nor does it somehow make the POWs ("detainees") any less deserving of their human rights under the Ceneva Convention, to which the US is a signatory.

[marcpcbs]

This whole situation is just waterboarding under the bridge. We should just move on.

Hay I''ve heard that pulling finger nails works.

[sophielhu]

I just read an interesting article. I too think that waterboarding is actually tying someone to a board or chair (see Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory), and dunking them in a pool of water up to the point they almost drown, and then pull them up at the last minute. I don''''t think putting a towel over my head and pouring water on my face is going to make me think I''''m drowning, unless, they hold my mouth open and force water in. I don''''t know.
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[gce65]

"The issue briefly snarled Mukasey''s confirmation hearings by the same Senate committee last October. At the time, Mukasey refused to define waterboarding as torture because he was unfamiliar with the classified Justice Department memos describing the process and legal arguments surrounding it.

He promised then, however, to review the memos if confirmed and return an answer to the Senate Judiciary Committee."

Mukasey: YOU ARE A LIAR! You''re the right man for this administration; YOUR CREDIBILITY''S SHOT!

[gce65]

Mr Mukasey: YOU ARE A COWARD!

[tmittelstaed]

The only sure way of getting reliable information out of a prisoner is to co-opt them. The inquisitor has to build a relationship of trust with the prisoner, and over time, convince him that the prisoners beliefs are wrong. In short, brainwashing. It takes years to do it, and the inquisitor and prisoner have to forge a bond, which if they are both coming from wildly different backgrounds, may be impossible.
My personal opinion is that with these Arab terrorist prisoners that doing this is simply impossible. I''d rather see them secretly inject the prisoner with a small radio transmitter and then release the prisoner, then track where he goes and listen to who he''s talking to and what he''s saying - and when it''s clear he''s holed up with his other terrorist buddies planning another attack - then send in the cruise missiles.

[msd1972]

I just read an interesting article. I too think that waterboarding is actually tying someone to a board or chair (see Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory), and dunking them in a pool of water up to the point they almost drown, and then pull them up at the last minute. I don''t think putting a towel over my head and pouring water on my face is going to make me think I''m drowning, unless, they hold my mouth open and force water in. I don''t know.

m.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/Waterboarding-Definition-Wikipedia24dec05.htm

[robertkjjj]

HA HA
I hope he ups the ante and uses electrocution instead.
Water is wayyyyyyy too kind and gentle to be used on the Islamist scum.

[psk123-2009]

He is the nation''s top AG, it IS his job to weigh in and have an opinion on the matter. By refusing to say one way or the other it looks an awful lot like water boarding IS illegal and he knows it, but to actually come out and say it would get the pres in big trouble.

[fiteit1]

OLD5HITA55, obviously you haven''t read the Geneva Convention either. So here is something to fill the empty space between your ears.

Excerpts from the Geneva Convention,

Article 1
1. For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession,

Article 2
2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.

Article 3
1. No State Party shall expel, return ("refouler") or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.

Article 4
1. Each State Party shall ensure that all acts of torture are offences under its criminal law. The same shall apply to an attempt to commit torture and to an act by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in torture.
2. Each State Party shall make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their grave nature.

Bush and company is guilty of each article.

[old5hita55]

Mukasey Still Mum On Waterboarding
Attorney General Won''''t Publicly Say Whether Interrogation Tactic Is Torture Or Legal

Did anyone ask him if he ever heard of the Geneva Convention ?



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Posted by IOWEIGN ...........................................................Have YOU ever read the Geneva Convention? Obviously not, you''re just another turkey that gobbles when you hear another turkey gobbling the same thing.

[old5hita55]

Waterbord the *** out of them there rag heads! Who cares if theys suffers some. Its better then they deserv for what theys done

[cbs_oliver]

This is thanks to those jerks Chucky Schumer and Diane Feinstein and a few other Quizling Democrats.

We need better Democrats.

[rowdytexan2]

I sitll can''t figure out why his appointment went thru. What was the *** rush to have an attorney general? Why couldn''t they have waited and made Bush nominate someone else?

Or did he have someone really wearing a szwastica lined up for his next appointment?

[sgtrds]

If he refuses to answer the question then water-board him until he speaks...........

[fiteit1]

Why would anyone find this surprising. To say it is illegal or torture would legitimize war crime claims against Bush and the military. Wait until Bush is gone and then bring up this issue and all the others he has swept under the executive privilege and national security carpet. Then try them all on war crimes, crimes against humanity, illegal search and seizer and wire-tapping.

[prinzowhales]

Mukasey is also interfering with an investigation of the politicalization of the federal prosecutors... he''s a real scum bag...but, its not like the Democrats are going to do anything about it.

[keithle1]

Do it to the old f a r t for an hour & see if he calls it "torture."

[ioweign]

Mukasey Still Mum On Waterboarding
Attorney General Won''t Publicly Say Whether Interrogation Tactic Is Torture Or Legal

Did anyone ask him if he ever heard of the Geneva Convention ?