Does anyone have even the slightest doubt as to how this is going to end?
Deputy AG Nominee: Waterboarding Is ‘Repugnant,’ But Can’t Say Whether It’s Torture
Today in his nomination hearing to be Deputy Attorney General, Mark Filip refused to explicitly say whether he believed waterboarding to be torture. He told Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) that he found the interrogation technique “repugnant,” but couldn’t answer without taking “a long hard look at” the information: ...
UPDATE: Later in the hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told Filip that he was not “satisfied” with Filip’s answer on waterboarding:
I think it is a response consistent with Attorney General Mukasey. But consistent with Attorney General Mukasey’s response to this committee, he received the lowest confirmation vote of any Attorney General nominee in the last fifty years. And that’s where you find yourself at this moment, over the same issue.
Let me give Mr. Filip some free advice that will save everyone just truckloads of time: Tell the people on the confirmation committee that they can all go fuck themselves, because you're going to be confirmed anyway. That's just the way the Democrats operate these days. Trust me on this one.
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Shorter Durbin: If you keep testifying like Mukasey did you're just going to end up being confirmed like he was.
You have no idea how AGGRAVATING it is to see shit like this going on.
I'll be perfectly clear on this issue:
Waterboarding is torture. If you don't believe it, you should be subjected to it so you can find out and report back to other the other idiots.
Waterboarding is explicitly illegal not just since McCain's bill, but at least since after WWII when we put a Japanese soldier in jail for 15 years for waterboarding US citizens.
If we expect to be able to use waterboarding on captured prisoners, then we should expect waterboarding to be used on our own soldiers and civilians that are captured in the field as well. The whole reason for the Geneva Convention was to PREVENT shit like this from happening by making it clear that after ( or perhaps during ) the war you would suffer consequences if you allowed that to happen.
Not to mention the fact that out of the original 775 detainees that were originally held in US Custody at Guantanamo Bay, about 420 have been released already. Out of the 355 remaining our government is only planning to put 60 to 80 on trial.
80 out of 755 is 10%. That would indicate that 90% of the people they captured were innocent enough that they had to release them rather than putting them on trial. A number of them were people turned in by their neighbors for the bounty we placed on their heads.
Got news for you, if the government started a program wherein I could get $25,000 or more per person I turned over to them as terrorists, I'd start a new company. BogusCharges.com and go into business doing just that and turn every damned last one of you neo-con asshats over to them just to collect the dough. I'd be able to retire in a couple of years and guilty or not, who cares! Most of these people have been kept down there since just after the invasion with no rights to contest their arrest. So who's gonna find out if I send you and your whole damned family away and use that as an opportunity to buy your house at auction for what the bank will foreclose on it for ( since you disappeared you won't be paying your bills ). By the time you get out I'll have sold everything you own and be chilling in Aruba.
Do you morons on the right honestly want a government with a 90% failure rate at dealing with supposed terrorists to be the same people who can break the law forbidding torture? Are you really that retarded? Do you really want Hillary Clinton to have that power?
If that's the case be my guest to sign up to be waterboarded for such horrible crimes as 'playing your music too loud' or 'letting your dog shit on my lawn'. or 'being out past curfew'. Because when you allow 'officials' to do shit like this and you don't keep an eye on them eventually they're going to abuse it and get off on it. THAT is where we're headed.
No torture. Not on my watch. Doesn't matter who they are.
File this one under "Foregone Conclusions".
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