"Good."
CBS News:
[I]n the end the Democrats were unable to force Attorney General-nominee Michael B. Mukasey into publicly declaring that the simulated-death form of interrogation called "waterboarding" falls within the legal definition of torture, and thus is outlawed completely. Good.
Instead of trying to coerce a high-ranking executive branch official into undercutting his own president's power, the legislators ought to instead look inward, toward Capitol Hill, and simply and expressly prohibit "waterboarding" by federal statute.
I can't help but wonder what the quotes are for; it's called waterboarding. It's not slang, it's a real word. I imagine him saying this and making those idiotic quotation marks with his fingers.
But a bigger problem is that his argument is stupid. Following this line of reasoning, Congress would have to go through and specifically outlaw every form of torture some sadist can think up. Otherwise, nothing is torture...
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