Attorney General Michael Mukasey, in testimony before the House today, said that the Justice Department will not investigate waterboarding, even though the administration has now admitted that at least three suspects were subjected to what the press delicately calls "simulated drowning," or of warrantless wiretapping. And the reason? Because Justice had previously said that the techniques were legal.
David Kurtz, on TPM, said it best:
We have now the Attorney General of the United States telling Congress that it's not against the law for the President to violate the law if his own Department of Justice says it's not.
So much for a government of laws and not of men.
2 comments:
I wonder how well Charles Schumer (NY) and Dianne Feinstein (CA) are sleeping these days. Every Liberal in the country advised them to not let this enabler out of committee because we saw him to be as bad as Gonzales.
It seems that Bush is very good at at lest one thing - covering his nethers.
I think I recall that Schumer was motivated somehow, can't remember how, to cover his ass with his NY City based investment community donors, the hedge fund guys who escape taxes in the Bush era.
Feinstein, I just don't get.
This country is sicker than I thought, and the parasite is as hard to kill off as the lyme disease parasite.
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