It’s Waterboarding, Not Apple Bobbing

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You have to admire Michael Mukasey’s academic integrity on the question of whether waterboarding can be defined as a form of torture.

Mukasey has dodged the questions of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the practice, saying that he doesn’t have the security clearance for making an informed statement. That’s telling ‘em, Mike!

Sometimes I wonder how people like Patrick Leahy keep from exploding during confirmation hearings. The issue of waterboarding, after all, starts at the top, like every other assault on the Constitution, Geneva Conventions, and human decency. Asking these questions must be the height of absurdity.

Dubya wasn’t going to select a Petraeus who wasn’t going to bullshit Congress, nor a Mukasey who won’t play along with the assembled chickenhawks.

If Mukasey wants to buy a little credibility for a whiz-bang finish to the hearings, he ought to head down to Guantanimo and experience a little waterboarding for himself. Then he can lay the question of whether or not it’s torture to rest on an experiential basis.

Actually, since our Commander-in-Chief has such cojones grandes, we should probably start with him. I’m sure it wouldn’t faze him a bit. He and El Cheney could go on a field trip.

Now there’s something that definitely should start at the top.