Comments on: Senate Schedules Mukasey Vote for Next Tuesday — Despite Refusal to Recognize Waterboarding as Torture http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-5983 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:01:13 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-5983 Something I would have posted at the time had I been aware of it:

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/11/mukaseys-letter-not-good-enough.php

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-593 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:13:03 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-593 Unfortunately, not only will he not be blocked for failure to answer this question, but a leading democrats is saying that he will likely be confirmed. What is interesting is that a leading senator would want this to be qouted without attribution. The only reason would be to try to reduce expectations among voters who want a hard stance against torture.

]]> By: I_dunno http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-591 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:23:38 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-591 Looks like we have to come to the realization that our government is no longer in charge. Instead, the multi-national corporations are in charge and our politicians – every last one of them – are simply puppets carrying out the fascist agenda.

Authorize illegal wiretaps? Not a problem.

Corporate government contractors employees participated in the Abu Ghraib torture? Sweep it under the rug.

Any possibility government contractors could be involved in waterboarding? Create a legal(?) loophole to legalize it.

Whatever the fascists need, consider it done. Just don’t tell society what is really happening.

]]> By: Robert LaRue http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-588 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:34:54 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/10/31/senate-schedules-mukasey-vote-for-next-tuesday-despite-refusal-to-recognize-waterboarding-as-torture/#comment-588 This one is a puzzler. Not Mukasey’s refusal to adknowledge the illegality of waterboarding–What can you expect from any Bush appointee?–but the committee’s apparent refusal to challenge the specific and general concept of torture and the uses this administration has made of it. It looks like yet another act of cowardice and accommodation for the Senate. What is happening?

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