US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Friday that he will not support the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US attorney general, citing Mukasey's continuing reluctance to unequivocally denounce waterboarding...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that Judge Michael Mukasey's written response to Senate Judiciary Committee follow-up inquiries concerning his views on the legality of waterboarding and torture demonstrate views of America's...
Bush defends Mukasey refusal to condemn waterboarding as illegal
US President George W. Bush on Thursday defended the refusal of Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey to say that waterboarding is illegal. During a press conference Thursday, Bush said:I've submitted...
Senate Judiciary Committee schedules vote on Mukasey nomination for Nov. 6
The chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday that an executive business meeting will be held November 6 to consider the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US attorney...
CIA Director Michael Hayden defended the CIA's interrogation tactics Tuesday in the wake of the refusal of US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey to say whether waterboarding constitutes torture. In...
Mukasey balks at calling waterboarding illegal in response to judiciary panel
US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey wrote in a letter to Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that he did not know if waterboarding was illegal, and that...
US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sunday that unless US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey clarifies that he believes waterboarding is torture, Graham will consider opposing Mukasey's nomination. Speaking on CBS News' Face The Nation...
Mukasey says Constitution no bar to warrantless surveillance of terror suspects
US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter released Friday that the Constitution does not preclude the president from wiretapping terrorism suspects without a warrant. His comments...
Leahy, Durbin say Mukasey waterboarding answer key to vote on AG nomination
Two key Democrats on the US Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that their votes on the nomination of retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general will depend on Mukasey's stance on whether the interrogation technique...
Is waterboarding torture? Judge Mukasey says he doesn't know
Gary Solis : " Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey could not or would not say if he considers waterboarding...