By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG and ARIANE de VOGUE Nov. 2, 2007
A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned about the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding that he decided to experience it firsthand, sources told ABC News.
Daniel Levin, then acting assistant attorney general, went to a military base near Washington and underwent the procedure to inform his analysis of different interrogation techniques.
Sources said he was forced out of the Justice Department when Gonzales became attorney general.
While I was researching and typing this post, I heard that Judge Michael Mukasey's nomination for Attorney General has moved out of committee to be voted on before the full Senate. All despite Mukasey refusing to acknowledge waterboarding as torture. He claims that since he isn't privy to classified information yet, he can not make such a decision. Well, I'd suggest that all he has to do is refer to Mr. Levin, himself a former Justice Department member. That's if Mukasey is interested in the truth and we all know he isn't. Surely no one is allowed to be a Bush nominee unless they swear an oath to him, rather then the Constitution.
All that being said, however, the aspect of this nomination process that angers me most are the "Democrats" who are going to vote for this guy. I'm tired of the "Democrats" wanting to be our leaders and then when we vote them in they run for the hills at the slightest sign of opposition. As much as I can't stand the Neo-cons, at least they stand for what they believe in and fight for it.
Check out Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on this issue:
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A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned about the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding that he decided to experience it firsthand, sources told ABC News.
Daniel Levin, then acting assistant attorney general, went to a military base near Washington and underwent the procedure to inform his analysis of different interrogation techniques.
After the experience, Levin told White House officials that even though he knew he wouldn't die, he found the experience terrifying and thought that it clearly simulated drowning.
"Waterboarding is torture," Daniel Levin was to write. Daniel Levin was no theorist and no protester. He was no troublemaking politician. He was no table-pounding commentator. Daniel Levin was an astonishingly patriotic American and a brave man.Sources said he was forced out of the Justice Department when Gonzales became attorney general.
While I was researching and typing this post, I heard that Judge Michael Mukasey's nomination for Attorney General has moved out of committee to be voted on before the full Senate. All despite Mukasey refusing to acknowledge waterboarding as torture. He claims that since he isn't privy to classified information yet, he can not make such a decision. Well, I'd suggest that all he has to do is refer to Mr. Levin, himself a former Justice Department member. That's if Mukasey is interested in the truth and we all know he isn't. Surely no one is allowed to be a Bush nominee unless they swear an oath to him, rather then the Constitution.
All that being said, however, the aspect of this nomination process that angers me most are the "Democrats" who are going to vote for this guy. I'm tired of the "Democrats" wanting to be our leaders and then when we vote them in they run for the hills at the slightest sign of opposition. As much as I can't stand the Neo-cons, at least they stand for what they believe in and fight for it.
Check out Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on this issue:
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4 comments:
They can't even get lipstick on this pig. Torture is torture and waterboarding is just that. They don't want to admit that it's torture because that would mean they broke the law, which they did.
PoP:
ABSOLUTELY. They are multiple felons in my book.
I seen a video of this water boarding, it was nuts!
Tina:
Yeah I have too. It's clealry torture.
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