Squeezing Mukasey on Torture
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By turning waterboarding into a make or break issue for the Attorney General nominee, the Democrats are using the President's favored weapon of moral clarity against him
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A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but that he now regards the tactic as torture.
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, will likely see a less hostile confirmation environment than someone considered more partisan.
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Michael B. Mukasey pledged to block political meddling at the Justice Department but did not distance himself from antiterrorism policies.
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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
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Michael B. Mukasey, the presidentâs attorney general nominee, gave senators direct answers, but his view of presidential power is perfectly aligned with that of the Bush administration.
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The lessons learned from a complex terrorism trial in 1996 are still echoing with Michael B. Mukasey.
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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced today that the Justice Department will open a criminal investigation of the CIA's destruction of videotapes that showed harsh interrogation tactics of suspected terrorists.
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Conservatives may not like President Bush's nominee for attorney general, but they are not rebelling against Michael Mukasey.
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President Bush has selected retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as his new attorney general, sources said yesterday, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department while hoping to avoid a confirmation fight with Senate Democrats.
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Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, told senators Thursday he's resistant to passing a law shielding reporters from being forced to reveal their sources, saying it would be "much easier" to fix internal Justice Department practice if need be.
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Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York, has emerged as a contender to succeed Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general
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The compromise reached on the interrogations and trials of terrorism suspects is a series of interlocking paradoxes, according to legal experts.
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A confidential report states that the U.S. military has used psychological and sometimes physical coercion "tantamount to torture" on prisoners.
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Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge regarded as an expert on national security issues, has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general, several conservatives close to the White House said yesterday.
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President Bushâs nominee to be the second-ranking official at the Justice Department refused to say whether he considered the interrogation technique to be âtorture.â
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Michael Mukasey, Bush's pick for attorney general, was a tough, conservative judge - with liberal admirers.