Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said this morning that waterboarding was deemed legal by the Justice Department at the time it was used by the CIA on three al-Qaeda captives, and as a result the Justice Department "cannot possibly" investigate whether a crime occurred. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Mukasey said that because waterboarding was part of a program approved by Justice lawyers, there is no way the department can open a criminal investigation into the practice.
"Waterboarding, because it was authorized to be part of a program … cannot possibly be the subject of a Justice Department investigation," Mukasey said in response to questions from panel Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.). "That would mean that the same department that authorized the program would now prosecute someone for taking part" in it, he said. Mukasey’s remarks were a direct rebuff to demands from many leading Democrats this week that the Justice Department open a criminal probe into the CIA’s use of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning in an attempt to force information from a prisoner.
The statements also appear to conflict with his testimony in the Senate last week, when Mukasey said on several occasions that a special U.S. attorney’s probe into the CIA’s destruction of videotapes could be expanded to include a probe of interrogation tactics shown on the tapes….
- The DOJ decides to break the Law.
- They break the Law.
- They can’t look into the Law being broken,
- …because they’re the ones that broke it.
I wonder if these morons even think about what they’re saying. The net outcome of their logic is that the DOJ can do whatever without considering the Law because they’re the people who investigate Law breaking, and they can’t investigate themselves. Alberto Gonzales, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney sure think that way – Conclusion: Above the Law [argument to follow]…
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