Tuesday, October 30, 2007
"Torturing Mukasey"
The Wall Street Journal offers a strong response to current demands on Judge Mukasey made by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of Democrats to declare waterboarding an unconstitutional method of torture.
"Just when you thought someone might be confirmed in Washington without a partisan fight, Senate Democrats are suggesting they may not approve Michael Mukasey as Attorney General after all. The judge's offense is that he's declined to declare 'illegal' an interrogation technique in the war on terror that Congress itself has never specifically banned....
As usual, Congress wants it both ways. The Members want to denounce what they call 'torture,' but the last thing they want is to be responsible if some future detainee knows about an imminent terrorist attack, but the CIA can't get the information because Congress barred certain kinds of interrogation. So they toss their non-specific language into the lap of the executive and say 'You figure it out.'"
"Just when you thought someone might be confirmed in Washington without a partisan fight, Senate Democrats are suggesting they may not approve Michael Mukasey as Attorney General after all. The judge's offense is that he's declined to declare 'illegal' an interrogation technique in the war on terror that Congress itself has never specifically banned....
As usual, Congress wants it both ways. The Members want to denounce what they call 'torture,' but the last thing they want is to be responsible if some future detainee knows about an imminent terrorist attack, but the CIA can't get the information because Congress barred certain kinds of interrogation. So they toss their non-specific language into the lap of the executive and say 'You figure it out.'"
# posted by Kim Loontjer @ 10:27 AM 
