All Posts Tagged With: "torture"
Senator Says Ban Torture But Give CIA Interrogation Leeway
By Pamela Hess, Associated Press
Seeking to referee a stalemate over how the CIA can interrogate prisoners, a top Senate Republican says Congress should ban waterboarding and seven other abusive methods of interrogation but allow the spy agency some leeway in how it questions detainees.
Like the 2008 version of the authorization bill — which President Bush [...]
Mukasey on Waterboarding:
by BarbinMD
Daily Kos
It Wouldn’t Be Responsible To Provide An Answer
Last November, two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein, broke with the Party to support Michael Mukasey for Attorney General despite the fact that Mukasey refused to say whether he thought waterboarding was torture because he “hadn’t been read into the [...]
Where do you stand on Waterboarding?
From The Rush Limbaugh Radio Program:
When it comes to the question on torture, you know what McCain could have said is, “Look, I know what torture is, and turning down the air-conditioning a little bit or playing rock ‘n’ roll music, and even putting underwear on the top of these guys’ heads is not torture. [...]
