Wednesday, January 30, 2008

And Bill Clinton Became a Punchline for His Semantics?


The Attorney General says "who am I to pass judgment on legality?" Oy vey, enough already.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused to legally define waterboarding as "torture" during Senate testimony Wednesday, although he acknowledged that if the interrogation technique were performed on him, he would personally "feel that it was."
During his first testimony since his November confirmation, Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that it wouldn't "be appropriate for me to pass definitive judgment on the technique's legality."
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