Harvard Law Faculty Letter Urges Senate to Call for Accountability on Waterboarding
Posted by stoptorture on October 17th, 2007
A group of five Harvard Law School faculty members sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee last Friday, October 12, 2007, urging Senators to demand that Mr. Mukasey–who faced his first confirmation hearing for the position of Attorney General this Wednesday, October 17, 2007–investigate and punish the authorization, ordering, and use of waterboarding, a technique the U.S. has a history of prosecuting as a war crime.
See the letter here.
For the most accurate coverage of the hearings so far, see Slate’s The Senate Runs into the Arms of Michael Mukasey.
Soldiers in Vietnam use the waterboarding technique on an uncooperative enemy suspect near Da Nang in 1968 to try to obtain information from him. (United Press International) [Washington Post article]
March 28th, 2009 at 1:50 am
This is reality and there are lot of things that you can not solve by diplomacy. This is the weakest point of western democracy. If the diplomats are roaming the globe then we all come back to the Dark Age. Also, if you want to have a effective diplomacy policy, you need to have something to back you up! A voice without authority is no voice at all.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS…Really! How about no terrorist attacks on US soil. How soon we all forget…
May 19th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Gee, if only Charles Grainer and, Lyndy England had used the Dick Chainey Approved methods of waterboarding, Than neither would have served there country in jail. But than both Charles Grainer and Lyndy came from a BLUE STATE? am I right ?
I live in a red state thus the taliban best think twice before moving into my hood LOL. Oklahoma the only state with 100% red counties in the last presdential election.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Could you place yourself there and suggest other methods and get results?
May 19th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Jerry you may have some thing there lets close Gitmo and send half the the 911 murderers to a RED state with waterboarding then take the other half and send them to a blue state with room service
Than kick back and see which ones talk more?
The Viet Nam helicopter method is said to work well. Take 2 VC up to 10,000 feet and throw one out with NO parachute than ask remaining one if he would like to talk?……………
May 21st, 2009 at 9:16 am
In Short What goes around comes around
I suspect this will be used on our own peoples in the the future.
IE troops or citizens, But than let us remember this method is approved by Dick Chainey himself. Now before you turn into a Cindy Shehan let me remind the troops all volunteered just like that Cardinals foot ball player did.
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 am
Well I never knew what water boarding was . Apparently it isnt fatal practice but then again it isnt a watersport either. If Khalid underwent 185 waterboarding sessions did he eventually grow use to the process? it is said that what doesnt kill you makes you stronger still! Well this son of a bitch must have balls of steel by now or perhaps he grew to enjoy the process in the end. Well I hope he keeps his chin up at least his new waterboarder will be a man with a new attitude someone who is operating under a mandate of change. In truth though myself I believe a small blow torch flame could accomplish the same end in probably on session without all that splich splach.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:43 am
I had some friends waterboard me last night. It really suckes, but I’m not sure that you could call it torture in the sense that being drawn and quartered is.
June 10th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
“Waterboarding is recent term. But for a thousand years it was known as “the Chinese water torture.” The new name sounds like some game to play at the beach on weekends.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Who the heck said war is peacefull…war is for a politicall purpose and it is still war…it is a competition, it is kill or get killed…and in war you need the advantage to not get killed…waterboarding is more psycological than physical…IT IS WAR…..get over it…..the whole “Law of war crap”….if there is war..there is no law that applies….”ok, let me kill you in a correct way….here, take my country because the law of war says…” If you have nothing to do with the armed forces in this country…then shut up…and if you dont like war, which in unfortunate but a reality…and wouldnt like to fight for your life or of those close to you…then move the hell out…and when some one comes to take over your spot, give them a warm welcome rear first and spread it for them…
October 14th, 2011 at 6:30 am
How can anyone seriously think that war solves anything?? Human beings as a species don’t have a clue 🙂
October 15th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Is this the same tactics we use on terrorists?