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Ashcroft Falsely Claims Waterboarding Has Been Seen as Legal

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During a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee today, former Attorney General John Ashcroft falsely claimed that waterboarding has “consistently” been defined as “not torture” and refused to agree that the use of enhanced interrogation techniques — including waterboarding — on captured U.S. soldiers is “unacceptable” or “criminal.”

REP. MAXINE WATERS: Do you think that if these techniques were used on American soldiers that they would be totally unacceptable and even criminal? […]

ASHCROFT: My job, as Attorney General, was to try and elicit from the experts and the best people in the Department definitions that comported with the statues enacted by the Congress and the Constitution of the United States. And those statutes have consistently been interpreted so as to say, by the definitions that, waterboarding, as described in the CIA’s request, is not torture.

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3 responses // Ashcroft Falsely Claims Waterboarding Has Been Seen as Legal

  • Not only has water boarding been defined as torture by the Geneva Convention, but the United States has condemned other countries in the past for it's use.
    At this point Bush could burn the White House down and Bush's pals would applaud him for "creating new construction jobs." Where is the justice?
    StewBradley
  • The 8th amendment

    Cruel and unusual punishment

    Body of law and analysis that is NOW available (it was ALWAYS AVAILABLE and..... EVEN if you cannot find it, ASK CONGRESS)

    Understanding is clearer (NOW)

    Clearer definitions were needed and it was a -PROBLEM- at the department of justice

    was any information that went out inaccurate?

    ALL conclusions coming out of that information were accurate (the actions taken were correct and needed because of the circumstances) THE REASONING was the problem once again, how much pain is appropriate? Right? Tickling someone with a feather is torture? Maybe, but the question could be, are you tickling someone who is tied up or not?

    !!!!!!!!!!!!

    and we (THE ADMINISTRATION) thought the country would be best served IF THAT (-PROBLEM-) WAS WITHDRAWN

    they knew it was a problem and they looked away

    the chicken or the egg, the 1st memo or the 2nd memo?
    lfm
    • lfm
    • 2 months ago
  • What a scumbag. It's no wonder he lost his senate seat to a dead man in 2000 http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/07/.... Of course, had I know that Bush was going to make him attorney general, I might have voted for him. He probably would have done less damage to our Nation had he remained in the Senate.
    Bovey

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