{"id":88,"date":"2008-01-30T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2008\/01\/30\/mukasey-would-feel-that-waterboar"},"modified":"2008-01-30T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:10:05","slug":"mukasey-would-feel-that-waterboarding-would-be-torture-if-done-to-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2008\/01\/30\/mukasey-would-feel-that-waterboarding-would-be-torture-if-done-to-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukasey &#8220;Would Feel That&#8221; Waterboarding Would be Torture If Done to Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Senator Edward Kennedy:<\/strong> &#8220;Would waterboarding be torture if it was done to you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attorney General Michael Mukasey:<\/strong> &#8220;I would feel that it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, Mukasey still refuses to answer whether waterboarding is torture and is prohibited.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/frank-dwyer\/orwell-in-wonderland_b_83427.html\">portrait of George Orwell<\/a> indeed hangs on his wall at the Department of Justice.  Good old doublethink.<\/p>\n<p>See the exchange at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/005176.php\" title=\"Mukasey says he would feel waterboarding would be torture\">TPM Muckraker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Edward Kennedy: &#8220;Would waterboarding be torture if it was done to you?&#8221; Attorney General Michael Mukasey: &#8220;I would feel that it was.&#8221; Despite that, Mukasey still refuses to answer whether waterboarding is torture and is prohibited. A portrait of George Orwell indeed hangs on his wall at the Department of Justice. Good old doublethink. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,1141,2155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-torture","category-us-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}