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Fri 01 Jan 2009Incoming AG signals clean break with Bush era policies
BARACK OBAMA’S nominee for attorney general has signalled a clean break with the Bush administration’s counter-terrorism policies, declaring that waterboarding – a form of controlled drowning used in CIA interrogations – is torture.
At his confirmation hearing before the Senate judiciary committee yesterday, Eric Holder rejected the outgoing administration’s claim that the president’s power in a national emergency overrode constitutional restrictions. “No one is above the law,” he said.
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