CNN: Attorney general dances around waterboarding issue
In the latest and greatest installment of the Bush administration's ongoing "Torture or Not Torture" game show, the Attorney General of the United States of America testified before Congress, yet refused to provide his legal opinion of whether or not the practice of waterboarding constitutes "torture". Though he was more than willing to say that if it was done to him, he'd consider it such. Of course, that's not a legal opinion.
Let's forget for one moment that it's his duty as Attorney General to make his legal opinion known. And let's forget for a moment the ramifications that such a decision would have politically for him. If he thinks that, were it done to him, he'd consider waterboarding "torture", doesn't that really answer the question?
I guess it's just another notch in the belt for the Bush administrations systematic castration of our government's conception of separation of powers and oversight.
But then again, if it worked for the Spanish Inquisition, the Khmer Rouge, and the Japanese Military during WWII, it's good enough for us, right?
In the latest and greatest installment of the Bush administration's ongoing "Torture or Not Torture" game show, the Attorney General of the United States of America testified before Congress, yet refused to provide his legal opinion of whether or not the practice of waterboarding constitutes "torture". Though he was more than willing to say that if it was done to him, he'd consider it such. Of course, that's not a legal opinion.
Let's forget for one moment that it's his duty as Attorney General to make his legal opinion known. And let's forget for a moment the ramifications that such a decision would have politically for him. If he thinks that, were it done to him, he'd consider waterboarding "torture", doesn't that really answer the question?
I guess it's just another notch in the belt for the Bush administrations systematic castration of our government's conception of separation of powers and oversight.
But then again, if it worked for the Spanish Inquisition, the Khmer Rouge, and the Japanese Military during WWII, it's good enough for us, right?
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