Feingold wants answers on torture from Mukasey.
Feingold wants answers on torture from Mukasey.
In light of news that the CIA destroyed tapes documenting the torture of detainees, Sen. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) today wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking that he detail his views on interrogation. Mukasey repeatedly dodged these questions during his nomination hearings. From his letter:
During the hearing on your nomination to be Attorney General and in your answers to questions submitted for the record, you repeatedly refused to answer questions related to interrogation techniques on the grounds that you had not yet been briefed on the CIA’s interrogation and detention program. I was disappointed with these responses. [...]
Nonetheless, now that you have been sworn in as our nation’s Attorney General and presumably have been briefed on the program, I urge you to provide your views on its legality to Congress at the earliest possible date.
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Yeah, good luck with that…
December 10th, 2007 at 4:27 pmThanks Mr. Feingold, but you won’t get anything but spin spin spin!
December 10th, 2007 at 4:28 pmhe forgot to add:
I urge you to provide your views on its legality to Congress at the earliest possible date, WITHOUT IT GOING THROUGH WHITEHOUSE HANDS FIRST.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:29 pmSuch strong words.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:36 pmhe forgot to say “pretty please”… he’ll never get an answer now…
December 10th, 2007 at 4:37 pmDid anybody read what Glenn Greenwald said about DiFi ??
Hes pretty down on her, and Rockefeller too.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:38 pmSo many questions. Only one answer: no.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:38 pmHow many times can you repeat this name?
Porter Goss
Everyone is talking about this story, yet none in the media will say the name of the man who was actually in charge when the tapes were ordered destroyed:
Porter Goss
Porter Goss
Porter Goss
Study who Porter Goss is and how he is linked to Poppy Bush from way back – then do the math.
Porter Goss did it.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:39 pm“earliest possible date”? Come on, we can do better than that. Christmas? New Years? Right before the GOP convention? January 21, 2009? Never?
December 10th, 2007 at 4:45 pmthen do the math.
Porter Goss did it.
Comment by plunger — December 10, 2007 @ 4:39 pm
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What kind of Math?
I dont remember any math in the bible….
better just to forget the whole thing.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:46 pmThere’s folks in Hell wantin’ icewater, too Russ.
The Cosa Nostra don’t “rat out” their own.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:48 pmMaybe Feingold should be writing letters to Pelosi and Rockefeller.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:51 pmOh God, now the they have my last remaining hero writing letters in a futile attempt to find out something from georgejr’s henchmen.
Russ, Russ, Russ, it’s time to show up at every office of every department of the executive branch (including the White House & all of Cheney’s undisclosed locations) with warrants and subpoenas & (armed) marshalls, and DEMAND access to all documents having to do with everything they’ve done for the past 6 years, and (almost) 11 months. You know, the way the FBI shows up and demands everyone stand by, while they search for anything and everything incriminating that they might find (rubber gloves and plastic bags and those cute tweezers).
December 10th, 2007 at 4:55 pmThis past weekend, Human Rights First hosted a meeting in Des Moines, Iowa with over a dozen retired admirals and generals and seven of the presidential candidates to discuss the importance of putting an end to policies that authorize torture and abuse. Check out today’s op-ed in Stars and Stripes to read why the meeting’s co-chairs, General Joseph P. Hoar and General David M. Maddox, were motivated to take action against torture and abuse.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=50764
December 10th, 2007 at 4:57 pmYou know, clinton should have just ordered the execution of the republicans in congress, and then classified it as national security.
People could have written letters back in the 90s too. Both would have achieved the same result.
I really really really hope a Democrat wins in 2008 so the Democratic president can play by these rules. They want to play F@ck the constitution?
Fine. Lets see how they like it with Hillary in charge.
Payback .
December 10th, 2007 at 5:01 pmGee, it wouldn’ve been nice if you had pressed him for answers BEFORE he was confirmed, Diane.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:19 pmOT – sorry – Just heard from a friend in the Green Zone – the Iraqi Parliament is about to take another 30 day recess.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:22 pmMukasey’s answer will be short. One finger length.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:29 pmWaxman is a traitor. He is in charge of the anti-semetic committee and got barney franks, jan schransky and other jewish members of congress to sign a vile letter condemning Rep. Jim Moran for telling the truth about AIPAC’s illegal influence on Congress in a very long interview with the courageous Rabbi Lerner in Tikkun magazine.
Waxman refuses to even reply to Sibel Edmunds about hearing evidence of AIPAC and Turkey’s connection with the atrocity of 911.
I Was Israel’s Dupe
Tom Hayden
Twenty-five years ago I stared into the eyes of Michael Berman, chief operative for his congressman-brother, Howard Berman. I was a neophyte running for the California Assembly in a district that the Bermans claimed belonged to them.
“I represent the Israeli defense forces,†Michael said. I thought he was joking. He wasn’t. Michael seemed to imagine himself the gatekeeper protecting Los Angeles’ Westside for Israel’s political interests, and those of the famous Berman-Waxman machine.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-dupe.html
http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1969&highlight=Pollard
December 10th, 2007 at 6:04 pm“I urge you to provide your views on its legality to Congress”
Uh, Russ, this is someone that BUSH wanted as AG, which means you are not going to get squat out of him. Bush will tell him what to think and what to do and that means you get nothing.
Bush/Cheney/Mukasey
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
December 10th, 2007 at 6:32 pmThe truth will soon become apparent.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:31 pmGo boy!
December 10th, 2007 at 7:44 pmHere’s the best ticket the DemoRats can put and up I would vote for it.
Obama/Feingold!!!!
December 10th, 2007 at 7:48 pmFeingold is da bomb!!
I always Find Gold in Feingold!!!
December 10th, 2007 at 7:50 pmI think he’s most valuable if he remains a Senator. He serves as a voice of conscience and reason. With any luck we’ll find more like him.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:42 pmIf Mukasey refuses to unswer, he should be WATERBOARDED! WATERBOARD MUKASEY WHILE HE THINKS IT IS LEGAL! BUSH AND CHENNEY HAGE 09! TAKE THE REPITILE RICE TOO!
December 11th, 2007 at 2:05 am