Mukasey: torture=cost v. benefits - Democratic Underground

babylonsister

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:44 PM
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Mukasey: torture=cost v. benefits

:wtf:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/065260.php

Ends Justify the Means
01.30.08 -- 12:40PM
By David Kurtz

This may be the most revealing bit of Michael Mukasey's testimony today: Whether waterboarding is torture, the attorney general says, requires a balancing test of the costs v. the benefits.

So there you have it. In the view of the Justice Department, there is no categorical prohibition against the torture of detainees, even under the Detainee Treatment Act.

Waterboarding has become proxy for a whole host of torture methods that traditionally would be considered torture, and so the balancing test set out by the attorney general is not limited to waterboarding.

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fenriswolf

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:46 PM
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1. amazing

republicans are so easy to paint issues as black and white when they are stating what is right and what is wrong. But when asked to defend its, but, but , but.

all in all this is very dark for american indeed.

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bryant69

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:46 PM
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2. That'll be an interesting discussion

But of course the tragedy of torture is not just that it is immoral but that it is so regularly ineffective and even counter effective.

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babylonsister

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:48 PM
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3. The hearing was on CSPAN-1 last I checked. I don't know where the

House went to.

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Justitia

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:52 PM
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4. OMFG. Torture as an American cost mgmt decision. We are truly down the rabbit hole. -eom

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