Obama Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch: Waterboarding is torture and it is illegal

[Cali_Democrat]

Loretta Lynch: ‘Waterboarding is torture’

By SEUNG MIN KIM 1/28/15 11:23 AM EST

Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch told senators on Wednesday that acts of waterboarding constitutes torture — and are “thus illegal.”

Her statement came after Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) asked whether she believed waterboarding was torture. Leahy also referred to the report on enhanced interrogations that the Senate Intelligence Committee — then under Democratic control — released in December.

“Waterboarding is torture, Senator,” Lynch said in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “And thus illegal.”
Terrorism and national security issues have been among the topics raised early in Lynch’s confirmation hearing. In her opening remarks, she noted that her office, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, has tried more terrorism cases than any other federal prosecutor’s office has since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/loretta-lynch-waterboarding-torture-114678.html

[cloudbase]

1. She's still fine with civil forfeiture, though.

She brags about the amount she's pulled in.
No, thanks.

[shraby]

2. She is absolutely correct. Waterboarding is torture and illegal. Period. End of sentence...except

it should be prosecuted as such and hasn't been.

[HereSince1628]

3. A personal view or a professional commitment??

I suspect the former and it's likely a view that will not inform the latter in any meaningful way.

So much depends on assuaging the security apparat

[Vattel]

4. Did she identify the statutes under which it is criminal?

[winter is coming]

5. It's sad this this is a headline in 2015. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Can we now expect indictments and trials for the torturers and their bosses?

[BrotherIvan]

8. That's the question I'd like to see asked

Will you uphold the law equally and prosecute those who have committed war crimes, torture and other atrocities, and those who have stolen from the American taxpayer?

[marions ghost]

11. You mean

put some teeth into the laws about torture? Why bother when empty rhetoric seems to be good enough.

[CrispyQ]

13. No, but we will probably see more MJ arrests.

Because you know, smoking a leaf is so much worse than torture.

[PoliticAverse]

7. And people involved in such things in the past should be prosecuted? n/t

[Octafish]

9. Except when the President does it, right?

Right.

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Tell it to Obama. He's pre-occupied with "looking forward."

[Cha]

12. Thank Loretta Lynch

mahalo Cali

[spanone]

14. when she is confirmed it will be her duty to presecute.

we'll see about that

[on point]

15. Well duh. The real question is will she prosecute Bush regime?