In December, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) asked Attorney General Mike Mukasey for his analysis of the legality of the CIA’s interrogation program. Yesterday, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Mukasey said he believes the current CIA interrogation program is legal.
But in today’s hearing, Mukasey said he could not brief Congress on its legality. Mukasey said his views were embodied in classified letters which could not be disclosed. “Those letters are classified. … I think what you’ve asked me to do is to go and do something different than what’s in the letters, and I will not do that,” he said. Feingold continued:
FEINGOLD: You won’t come to Congress and explain your view of the legality of the details of program?
MUKASEY: The view that I have of the details of the program is embodied in classified letters, which I have reviewed and found to to comply with the law. They explain it. They explain it far beyond my ability to do it in a…session with Congress.
Mukasey +Waterboarding explanation = Stall tactic.
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Now Musk Rat had no choice in supporting torture as Cheney gave him the job to follow his policies. With John Neegroponte stating publicly that we did torture prisoners even innocent people but we don't anymore. Now that the Bush Administration has let it be known the new policy for the US is we torture when we want. Look for other countries to apply the same policy.
I might not live to see it but it will happen. An American soldier or citizen will be captured and tortured while the US claims this is illegal and runs to the UN. Problem is the UN can't do anything about it since the US has made it a US policy.
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