As General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Mr. Haynes helped to formulate policies governing detainee interrogation and detention that violated U.S. and international law. He recommended that detainees in Guantanamo could be subjected to abusive interrogation techniques, including stripping them naked, depriving them of light, forcing them into stress positions, forcibly shaving them, and using dogs to intimidate them. He also advised that using wet towels and dripping water to make the detainees believe they are suffocating (waterboarding) and threatening them and their families with death might be "legally available" options.
Of course Bush wants a guy like that to be a judge.
I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican. Unless you're Torquemada you should oppose the nomination of this legal piece of pond scum.
Look at the Left End of the Dial, or kos. This clown's list goes on and on.
I don't see how anybody can even QUESTION the fact that Bush has a weird sociopathic love-affair with torture. The American Press doesn't want to see it, but it's pretty damned hard to miss.
This nomination is NOT a rubber stamp. Democrats may actually try and block this one, maybe even with Republican help.
If you want to send something to your Senator from a religious perspective, try this one.
Even better, here are the phone numbers of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, list courtesy of kos:
Minority Members (Democrats)Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)
[Ranking Member]
202-224-4242 202-224-3479
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.govEdward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
202-224-4543 202-224-2417
Contact.Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE)
202-224-5042 202-224-0139
Contact.Herb Kohl (D-WI) >br> 202-224-5653 202-224-9787
Contact.Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
202-224-3841 202-228-3954
Contact.Russell D. Feingold (D-WI)
202-224-5323 202-224-2725
Contact.Charles Schumer (D-NY)
202-224-6542 202-228-3027
Contact.Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
202-224-2152 202-228-0400
Contact.
Majority Members (Republicans)
Arlen Specter (R-PA) [Chairman]
202-224-4254 202-228-1229
Contact.
Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)
202-224-5251 202-224-6331
Contact.
Charles E. Grassley (R-IA)
202-224-3744 202-224-6020
Contact.
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
202-224-4521 202-224-2207
Contact. Mike DeWine (R-OH)
202-224-2315 202-224-6519
Contact.
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
202-224-4124 202-224-3149
Contact.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
202-224-5972 202-224-3808
Contact.
John Cornyn (R-TX)
202-224-2934 202-228-2856
Contact.
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
202-224-6521 202-228-1265
Contact.
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
202-224-5754 202-224-6008
Contact.
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