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Retired JAGs On Waterboarding: ‘It Is Inhumane, It Is Torture, And It Is Illegal’

Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey has repeatedly refused to state whether or not waterboarding is illegal. In a legal dodge, Mukasey called the torture technique “hypothetical” and said that he would need the “actual facts and circumstances” to strike a “legal opinion.” But in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), four [...]