{"id":197389,"date":"2008-02-07T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/the-whitehouse-is-now-claiming-that-waterboarding-is-legal-and-mukasey-says-whatever-a-political-hack-in-the-doj-declares-is-legal-too\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:08:00","slug":"the-whitehouse-is-now-claiming-that-waterboarding-is-legal-and-mukasey-says-whatever-a-political-hack-in-the-doj-declares-is-legal-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/the-whitehouse-is-now-claiming-that-waterboarding-is-legal-and-mukasey-says-whatever-a-political-hack-in-the-doj-declares-is-legal-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whitehouse is Now Claiming that Waterboarding is Legal, and Mukasey Says Whatever a Political Hack in the DoJ Declares is Legal Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have the White House assurting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-na-torture7feb07,0,7315180.story\">that waterboarding is legal<\/a>, simply <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">because they say so<\/span>, and you have our So-Called Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, saying that if the political hacks appointed by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> in the Justice department said that it was OK, then there is no crime, so he <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/mukasey_no_i_will_not_investig_1.php\">will not investigate warrantless wiretapping or torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, these folks really hate most basic founding principal of the Republic, a nation of laws, and not men.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"373\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4Qa_ozpOGt8&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><div adblockframe=\"true\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: visible; width: 425px; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: visible; height: 0px; width: 100%;\" align=\"right\">\n<div  style=\"border-style: ridge ridge none; border-width: 2px 2px 0px; padding: 1px; overflow: visible; vertical-align: bottom; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; opacity: 0.5; top: -19px; left: -5px; z-index: 900; width: 48px; height: 15px; cursor: pointer;color:white;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 140%; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; opacity: 1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;font-size:12;color:black;\"   >Adblock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><embed adblockframename=\"adblock-frame-n6\" adblockframedobject2=\"true\" adblockframedobject=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4Qa_ozpOGt8&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"373\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have the White House assurting that waterboarding is legal, simply because they say so, and you have our So-Called Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, saying that if the political hacks appointed by Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 in the Justice department said that it was OK, then there is no crime, so he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1032,1102,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-intelligence","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}