Mukasey Calls Torture 'Antithetical' to American Way
By Spencer Ackerman - October 17, 2007, 11:07AM
That was, um, unexpected. Not only did Michael Mukasey repudiate the so-called 2002 "torture memo" signed by Office of Legal Counsel chief Jay Bybee -- which appears to have survived in spirit, if not in letter -- but he compared U.S. torture to the Holocaust.
Most significantly, Mukasey said that he is unaware of any inherent commander-in-chief authority to override legal restrictions on torture -- a huge repudiation of Dick Cheney, David Addington and John Yoo's perspective on broad constitutional powers possessed by the president in wartime -- or to immunize practitioners of torture from prosecution.
We voted this Moron in a second term,
Now We The People are tainted as a corrupt country because of our Commander In Chief? This nation needed a real leader not someone after daddy's enemies!
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