Tag Archive 'waterboarding'

Congress fails to over-ride waterboarding ban veto

Posted by Moonage on 12 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Legislative Process, National Politics, National Security

Here’s the news:
House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush’s veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects.
Good.
First of all, I don’t like the idea of locally politically motivated people determining national defense issues.  War is not a feel-good endeavor.  It’s [...]

Who gets to define torture?

Posted by Moonage on 31 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Idiot of the day, National Security, Political Correctness

There’s a lot being said over waterboarding.  Michael Mukasey’s nomination is said to be “drowning” over this one single issue.  Joe Biden and Patrick Leahy, who are prone to oppose just about anything for the sake of politics, are “concerned” that Mukasey, rather than completely cowering and denouncing PC-torture-procedure-of-the-day, stated he’d rather look at each [...]