http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2008/01/30/10-questions-on-torture-for-attorney-general-michael-mukasey/ Human Rights First builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence. Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2008/01/30/10-questions-on-torture-for-attorney-general-michael-mukasey/#comment-31 cyberpeg Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:07:00 +0000 http://69.164.209.119/?p=814#comment-31 >Mukassey's evasion is sufficient reason to dump his candidacy as attorney general, however, our elected officials don't have the spines to stand against this outrage. >Mukassey's evasion is sufficient reason to dump his candidacy as attorney general, however, our elected officials don't have the spines to stand against this outrage.

]]> http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2008/01/30/10-questions-on-torture-for-attorney-general-michael-mukasey/#comment-30 Anonymous Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:54:00 +0000 http://69.164.209.119/?p=814#comment-30 >Mukassey's refusal to classify waterboarding as torture is evasive and contemptable. The chief legal oficer in the Executive Department must be accountable to respond to the Senate's relevant, timely and legitimate demand to clarify the nation's position on this current day use of an archaic, primitive mode of trying to extract information from a prisoner. >Mukassey's refusal to classify waterboarding as torture is evasive and contemptable. The chief legal oficer in the Executive Department must be accountable to respond to the Senate's relevant, timely and legitimate demand to clarify the nation's position on this current day use of an archaic, primitive mode of trying to extract information from a prisoner.

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