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Voting for Torture
November 26, 2007 issue

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The author offers opinions on the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General. In order to protect the legal status of the administration of President George W. Bush, Mukasey refused to state if he considered the practice of waterboarding as torture, despite centuries of consensus it is. The votes by Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein to confirm Mukasey, and his almost certain confirmation, means the U.S. has taken an official stand in favor of torture.

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EDITORIALS; UNITED States -- Politics & government -- 2001-; TORTURE -- Government policy; NOMINATIONS for office; MUKASEY, Michael B.; UNITED States. Dept. of Justice; UNITED States. Congress. Senate; UNITED States
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