January 16, 2009 - 02:30 pm
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"Waterboarding Is Torture"

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In answering the first question he was asked at his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Attorney General-designate Eric Holder uttered three simple words that we've waited too long to hear:

Waterboarding is torture.

Along with that answer, that generated "a wave of approval" from the spectators, Holder also:

... pledged to shut down the U.S. naval prison in Cuba ... restore the Justice Department's reputation of independence from political interference ... told lawmakers he did not believe the attorney general's job was to serve as the president's lawyer ... vowed to see how much harm has been done to the department by political scandals.

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