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Mukasey: U.S. Military Has Never Waterboarded

Senate gives Mukasey a pass

Watching U.S. Senators question Attorney General Michael Mukasey at the Justice Department Oversight session is infuriating. Not only does Mukasey refuse to directly answer any question, no matter how simple, the senators give him a pass. This is oversight malpractice.

When asked by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) of the Senate Judiciary Committee if the U.S. military is waterboarding or has waterboarded a person in the past, Attorney General Michael Mukasey just said “not that I’m aware of.”

Liar. Liar.

U.S. Soldiers in Vietnam waterboarding a suspect near Da Nang in 1968.

If a random blogger knows about U.S. military abuses in the past, how could any Attorneys General not know?

Mukasey is a failure as the top law officer in the U.S., and as a responsible U.S. citizen. He, more than any other, has the power to reign in the legal power to torture other people, and he not only refuses, but refuses to answer basic questions about it.

Watch the testimony on fast forward and look at how many times he looks down or looks away from the questioner, each time he is being asked a direct question about something that makes him uncomfortable. Even when Sen. Kennedy (D-Mass) asked Mukasey that if Mukasey himself was waterboarded, would he consider it torture, Mukasey could only say “It would feel like torture.”

Dispicable. Dispicable.

Still want the Republicans in power?

images: http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0710/mukasey_1029.jpg, http://alittlereality.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-waterboarding-torture.html