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Mukasey: Don’t Know Much About Waterboarding

Memo to Sen. Dianne Feinstein: thanks a whole big bundle.

Too well I recall the morning last November when I read your stated intention to vote in favor of confirming Michael Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General. It made what would have been a pleasant breakfast at a local café go down quite a bit less easily. I narrowly averted embarrassment, because your characterizations of Judge Mukasey as independent-minded and repulsed by the idea of torture were such stuff as spit-takes are made on. Continue reading

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Torturama 2: Electric Boogaloo

Here’s something I never thought I’d say: kudos to Bill O’Reilly. From FOX News, via Andrew Sullivan: O’REILLY: Now Brian Ross of ABC said — reported the CIA waterboarded [Khalid Sheik] Mohammed. That is dunked him in water, tied him … Continue reading

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