Last week, HuffPost reported that John McCain's revulsion of waterboarding seemed attenuated by his desire to support Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for Attorney General. While McCain had criticized presidential rival Rudy Giuliani for accepting Mukasey's statement that he wasn't sure if waterboarding was a form of torture, McCain was hesitant to criticize, let alone vote against, Mukasey's nomination.
Instead, the Arizona senator, a former prisoner of war and torture victim, said merely that Mukasey deserved "an up or...
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