Word: mukasey
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...only real prospect for unearthing new facts comes from the subpoena issued last Monday by Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee, to Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding transcripts of FBI interviews with Cheney and Bush in the Plame case. The FBI is awaiting orders from Mukasey's office, but don't hold your breath. Department of Justice spokesman Peter Carr says, "We have received the subpoena and are reviewing it." Waxman's office expects a continued stonewall from the Justice Department ahead of the noon Monday subpoena deadline...
...Meanwhile, the steady revelation in scope of America’s systematic employment of “harsh interrogation techniques” (read: torture) has also drawn into relief the high costs of unchecked hegemony. In October, Michael Mukasey replaced the disgraced Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General, even as he could offer only equivocation on the subject of waterboarding—the precise opposite of the message American leadership must send to former friends and allies abroad...
...questioning listed in the Army's field manual, though President George W. Bush recently vetoed a bill that would have put similar limits on the CIA. For its part, the agency is investigating the destruction of videos allegedly showing torture in its secret overseas prisons, while Attorney General Michael Mukasey remains on the defensive for not condemning specific forms of torture. A variety of cases in lower courts and at the Supreme Court address allegations of faulty process and illegal detention at Guantnamo...
...right to do so, even if it?s at some future time. Waterboarding is torture. John McCain just said that on "60 Minutes" last night. It's clearly torture, and it?s clearly illegal. And the idea that [U.S. Attorney General] Michael Mukasey - the highest law-enforcement official in the land - would say that he's "not quite sure" whether or not it's legal is astounding to me. I think we've gone a long way - or this Administration has gone a long...
...Mukasey has argued that the congressional probe “would present significant risks to our preliminary inquiry.” His rationale for leading the preliminary investigation sounds oddly similar to the CIA’s rationale for destroying the tapes: Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the CIA director, said that not only did the tapes lack intelligence value, but their continued existence would jeopardize the identities of undercover officers...