A tad better than Gonzo...

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Cypress

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Good rhetoric, at least.


Mukasey Disavows Torture Memo

WASHINGTON — Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey said Wednesday the president doesn't have the authority to use torture techniques against terrorism suspects, a stance not taken by predecessor Alberto Gonzales and considered key to the nominee's confirmation.

Mukasey repudiated a 2002 memo by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee that said the president has the power to issue orders that violate the Geneva Conventions as well as international and U.S. laws prohibiting torture. The memo was later disavowed and overridden by an executive order on interrogation of terrorism suspects, which allowed harsh questioning but included a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.

"The Bybee memo, to paraphrase a French diplomat, was worse than a sin, it was a mistake. It was unnecessary," Mukasey, 66, told the Senate Judiciary Committee under questioning by Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

Leahy said that he and other senators did not vote for Gonzales in large part because he refused to disavow the Bybee memo.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071017/senate-attorney-general/
 
I know that I am going to sound cynical, but to me this is all BS.


We have moved on Cypress. The President has simply decided to say over and over" We don't torture"

So, the memo is now moot...or, perhaps a better word would be the one Mukasey chose, "unnecessary". The memo is unnecesary, so why all the fuss?

We don't torture. Next?
 
Darla said:
I know that I am going to sound cynical, but to me this is all BS.


We have moved on Cypress. The President has simply decided to say over and over" We don't torture"

So, the memo is now moot...or, perhaps a better word would be the one Mukasey chose, "unnecessary". The memo is unnecesary, so why all the fuss?

We don't torture. Next?
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Yes, I agree with you.

I think its nice sounding rhetoric. But, with this adminstration, that doesn't mean anything.

I still think its symbolically important to disavow the torture memo. In practice, we'll prabably still torture though.
 
uscitizen said:
Yeah the memo was unnecessary, but was the torture ?
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It often amazes me just how many people seem to believe that torture really is necessary in some cases. I find that every bit as frightening as people who are willing to fly airplanes into buildings.
 
Hey I could probably fly an airplane into a building. I used to crash into the sears tower all the time in the old origional flight simulator.
 
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