Hoekstra: Waterboarding is legal

[babylonsister]

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/14/hoekstra-waterboarding/

Hoekstra says waterboarding was legal, claims ‘there is a wide range of waterboarding.’

In a tense interview on Fox News today, host Shep Smith repeatedly pressed Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) if waterboarding is torture. Hoekstra initially dodged, saying, “I don’t know if it’s torture or not.” “I’d like an answer, sir,” Smith responded. Asked a fourth time, Hoekstra finally said he believes that interrogations used in the “immediate aftermath” of 2002 — which included waterboarding — were “consistent” with the law:

Q: And waterboarding is or is not torture?

HOEKSTRA: There is a wide range of waterboarding. I’m telling you, that I know waterboarding was used, Shep. I’m not mincing words. I’m saying that I believe the techniques used in 2002, in 2003, which included waterboarding in a specific format that I’m aware of how they used it, that I believe that was consistent with U.S. law.

[Solly Mack]

1. I keep thinking I couldn't possibly be more disgusted by this BS "debate"

and then...

[ejpoeta]

2. is bank robbery legal or illegal?

i contend bank robbery is legal.

[ejpoeta]

3. dupe delete

i contend bank robbery is legal.

[florida08]

4. geez

couldn't he BE anymore evasive? Thanks Shep for trying to nail him down but when the board keeps moving..