Ashcroft: Some forms of waterboarding might be legal…
Is it any surprised that a man who spends free time making sculptures out of barbed wire still does not believe his approval of torturing prisoners was wrong?
“I think history will be very kind to the President,” said former Attorney General John Ashcroft, speaking recently at the University of Texas at Austin. “I don’t have a mark on my conscience.”
Speaking with former Nixon White House counsel John Dean on Thursday night, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann tried to make sense of Ashcroft’s justification for signing off on waterboarding.
“There are things that you can call waterboarding that I am thoroughly convinced are not torture,” said Ashcroft in a video shot by an attendee at the UT lecture. “There are things that you can call waterboarding that might be torture. And the point that ought to be understood is that throwing a term around recklessly for its emotional content doesn’t really get you anywhere.”
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