{"id":49,"date":"2007-10-17T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T02:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2007\/10\/17\/harvard-law-faculty-letter-calls-"},"modified":"2007-10-27T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T00:37:08","slug":"harvard-law-faculty-letter-calls-for-accountability-for-waterboardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2007\/10\/17\/harvard-law-faculty-letter-calls-for-accountability-for-waterboardi\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law Faculty Letter Urges Senate to Call for Accountability on Waterboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8211;who faced his first confirmation hearing for the position of Attorney General this Wednesday, October 17, 2007&#8211;investigate and punish the authorization, ordering, and use of waterboarding, a technique the U.S. has a history of prosecuting as a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>See the letter <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/files\/2007\/10\/harvard-human-rights-letter-and-question-for-senate.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the most accurate coverage of the hearings so far, see Slate&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2176121\/pagenum\/2\/\">The Senate Runs into the Arms of Michael Mukasey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/04\/AR2006100402005.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/files\/2007\/10\/waterboarding-in-vietnam.jpg\" alt=\"Waterboarding in Vietnam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><font color=\"#666666\" face=\"verdana\" size=\"-2\">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) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/04\/AR2006100402005.html\">Washington Post article<\/a>]<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8211;who faced his first confirmation hearing for the position of Attorney General this Wednesday, October 17, 2007&#8211;investigate and punish the authorization, ordering, and use of waterboarding, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,1131,1141,2155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-international-law","category-torture","category-us-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}