Is Foreign Waterboarding of Americans Illegal? Top State Dept Lawyer Won’t Say
Posted by stoptorture on November 5th, 2007
Today, the Guardian, a British newspaper reports: “The top legal adviser within the US state department, who counsels the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, on international law, has declined to rule out the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding even if it were applied by foreign intelligence services on US citizens. John Bellinger refused to denounce the technique, which has been condemned by human rights groups as a form of torture, during a debate on the Bush administration’s stance on international law held by Guardian America, the Guardian’s US website. He said he would not include or exclude any technique without first considering whether it violated the convention on torture.” (emphasis added).
If this is not a wake up call for U.S. citizens, nothing is. Talk about national security. Do you feel safer?
There is still time. Demand that the Senate vote down Mukasey.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I don’t know if it helps, but I pointed folks to you. You might want to look at the Nichols article linked near the end. Glad you came back fighting.
-r
November 5th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Thanks Fensterm. It was a close one. We have to keep on fighting now. Glad to know there’s some one who looks after things.
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