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Michael Mukasey Nomination Bogging Down on Waterboarding Issue

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by Briant, Oct 30, 2007.

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Attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey's evasive answers two weeks ago to Senate Judiciary Committee members about one controversial form of interrogation have so eroded support for his nomination that one committee member said Mukasey would fail a key vote unless he provided a better answer.

"If the vote were held today, he (Mukasey) wouldn't get through the committee," one senior Judiciary Committee member said Tuesday, speaking of the committee's pending recommendation vote on Mukasey. The senator asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.

...Specter said that because the Senate last year voted down naming waterboarding as torture â€” as part of the debate on the Military Commissions Act â€” that "may decrease the burden on him (Mukasey)."
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306419,00.html

So they redefine it so it's not torture

Hopefull he will be blocked.

Briant, Oct 30, 2007 IP

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