Despite Past Anti-Torture Rhetoric, Graham Places Hold On Anti-Waterboarding Bill »
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"I think quite frankly applying the Army field manual to the CIA would be ill-advised and would destroy a program that I think is lawful and helps the country," Graham said in an interview.
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Dec. 15, 2007, 8:03 p.m.This gentleman sounds like a nifty flip-flopper on waterboarding and as of he could do with some assistance in making up his mind on which side he stands. First he was going to block this bill now he suddenly discovers that waterboarding is lawful.
FTA: "This week, Graham raked Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, over the coals for refusing to call waterboarding torture, even if done by Iranian "secret security agents" on an American pilot....
In October, Graham hinted that he might oppose Michael Mukasey's nomination unless he said waterboarding was illegal. After Mukasey continued to refuse to explicitly call waterboarding torture, Graham reneged and helped push Mukasey through the Senate.
[Though] Graham believes a person doesn't need "a lot of knowledge about the law" to know that waterboarding "violates" [the] Geneva Convention," he is now blocking efforts to outlaw the CIA's use of it."
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