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Mukasey被證實作為布什的第三位檢察長
星期六， 2007年11月10日
邁克爾Mukasey，關於被懷疑的恐怖分子酷刑和審訊的聲明引起一次黨羽參議院戰鬥，贏取確認是下美國。 檢察長。 Mukasey克服了反對從說的民主人士他在酷刑應該接受了較不模棱兩可的職位。 夜間表決昨天是53-40與六位康涅狄格，獨立的民主人士和約瑟夫Lieberman，支持提名。 四位民主黨總統候選人和一名共和黨人，亞利桑那的約翰McCain，沒有投票。 新的檢察長，服務的三在喬治・ W.之下總統。 布什，將擔任被黨羽政治充電損壞了司法部的領導。 Mukasey支持者認為他會恢復士氣在部門。 「法官Mukasey的確認來在重要片刻為司法部，并且為我們的國家」，布什在參議院表決以後被發表的聲明說。 「法官Mukasey是重要角色和正直的一個人，以例外法律評斷」。 設置Mukasey， 66，一位退休的聯邦法官宣誓就職在司法部的華盛頓總部最新今天，說白宮發言人托尼Fratto。 「他將開始立即遇見職員」， Fratto說。 Mukasey繼Alberto Gonzales之後，在8月辭職在他的無能解釋九美國的非法剝奪以後。 律師在國會花費了他支持在共和黨人和民主人士之中。 國會委員會在生火仍然按布什讓總統助理作證關於他們的介入。 `機會為變動』 「這是我們的機會為變動」， Feinstein說加利福尼亞民主黨Dianne，怨言關於美國。 律師解雇觸發了從辦公室駕駛Gonzales的探針。 Mukasey 「將是一位非政治，無黨派檢察長」。 在確認聽證會期間， Mukasey承諾保留政治出於邢事訴訟并且發誓辭職，如果布什将忽略他的忠告重要主動性違反憲法。 這些聲明從多數民主人士在參議院司法委員會得出了稱讚。 Mukasey的提名遇到了麻煩，當他拒绝說waterboarding，模仿淹沒的審訊技術，是否是非法酷刑。 和其他苛刻的審訊技術成為了一個問題從事報道中央情報局使用了waterboarding提取信息從三個阿爾凱達機械人員在9月以後。 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. `Repugnant’ Practice Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont and seven other Democrats on the panel opposed Mukasey. His nomination cleared the panel with the votes of just two Democrats, Feinstein and Charles Schumer of New York, and nine Republicans. Mukasey said he found waterboarding “repugnant” yet refused to say whether it was illegal torture. “If waterboarding is torture, torture is unconstitutional,” he said at the hearings last month. In a written response to a letter by senators seeking a fuller explanation, Mukasey refused to give a legal opinion based on “hypotheticals” instead of “the actual facts and circumstances.” Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, said “Judge Mukasey’s position on waterboarding is troubling” because “he wouldn’t answer direct questions about other torture techniques” even though military officials consider them to be torture. “Sadly, he said time and again that his answers would depend on the facts and circumstances.” `Put People at Risk’ Republicans defended Mukasey’s refusal to render a legal opinion about the legality of interrogation techniques that are classified. “Judge Mukasey found himself in a situation where an expression of opinion by him would put people at risk” of prosecution or a civil suit, said Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter. The Bush administration hasn’t said whether intelligence agents ever engaged in waterboarding, which is outlawed as a military technique. Still, Bush has insisted that the government has never used torture. Schumer recommended fellow New Yorker Mukasey to replace Gonzales. He and Feinstein argued that new leadership was needed at the Justice Department to restore the agency’s political independence and boost low morale caused by the controversies that led to the resignations of Gonzales and other top officials involved in firing the U.S. attorneys. “The Department of Justice, one of the crown jewels among our government institutions, is now adrift and rudderless,” Schumer said. “Politics had been allowed to infect all manner of decision-making” and now the agency “desperately needs a strong and independent leader at the helm. I believe Judge Mukasey is that person.” Gonzales, who was White House counsel during Bush’s first term as president, succeeded John Ashcroft as attorney general in 2005. Have Your Say: Mukasey Confirmed as Bush’s Third Attorney General Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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