Tuesday, May 19, 2009

On ‘Torture,’ Holder Undoes Holder -- A Commentary

Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama

From National Review:

The attorney general reveals his legal ignorance — or, his willful inconsistency.

There was a little noticed bombshell in Washington’s waterboarding melodrama last week. And it wasn’t Nancy Pelosi’s implosion in a Capitol Hill press room, where she yet again tried to explain her inexplicable failure to protest the CIA’s “torturing” of detainees. No, this one detonated in the hearing room of the House Judiciary Committee. There, Attorney General Eric Holder inadvertently destroyed the warped basis for his claim that waterboarding, as administered by the CIA, amounted to torture.

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