"I suspect he’s lying," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the chairman of the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, said about Steven G. Bradbury, head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Nadler believes Bradbury misled the panel about the definition of waterboarding during a colloquy over the procedure’s legality.[...]
Nadler asked Bradbury how "not being able to breathe as your lungs fill with water" could be legal. Bradbury replied in an unanticipated fashion. "Well, with respect, Mr. Chairman," he said, "your description is not an accurate description of the procedure that’s used by the CIA."
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" I suspect he’s lying, because why would we have to wait until now to hear this? We’ve had something like six or eight months worth of controversy over waterboarding. Why didn’t they say that [earlier]?"
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For Bradbury to remain in his position beyond the legal time-limit for unconfirmed nominees embodies the administration’s "lawlessness," Nadler said. He urged the next administration—particularly a Democratic one—prosecute prominent Bush administration officials for lawbreaking, as a matter of righting a Constitutional wrong. "[Attorney General] Michael Mukasey is not going to do it," he said. "I hope the next president will. Otherwise there will be no protection—none—against a president disobeying laws."
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”If the Republicans win, and they won’t, a Democrat will be tempted to look ahead and not back. I think that’s very destructive to our form of government to say the executive can violate the law with impunity. Then we’ll have no liberty left."
Welcome to 21st Century America.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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