President Bush, indirectly supports water boarding. Micheal Mukasey is a nominee for the United States attorney General. As the clip showed at the end of last weeks class, water boarding is a form of torture that makes the victum believe he is drowning in order to give information to his torturers. This form of torture is done in a controlled enviornment and has minimal long term physical problems but does have long term mental problems. It was believe to be started by the CIA but has its basic forms in the Spanish or Italian inquisitions. Micheal Mukasey's personal opion on this position is no comment. When he was being interviewed for the atorney gerneral position he sais that he did not want to give his position on it because he did not want terroists to train an prepare for his tortre techniques. Allthough he never admits it, some sources say that Mukasey does not consider waterboarding a form of torture. He is a flip flopper and still wont come out with a definitive answer and is being criticized by the democrats for it.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/11/bush-defends-mukasey-refusal-to-condemn.php
http://www.trews.org/node/927
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870
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