Bush Defends Mukasey Over Waterboarding

Paper: Hedging On Torture Is Meant To Protect Bush Officials From Criminal Charges

AP November 1, 2007 11:34 AM
President Bush, seeking to salvage the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, on Thursday defended the former judge's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding as illegal torture.
Bush said it was unfair to ask Mukasey about interrogation techniques on which he has not been briefed. "He doesn't know whether we use that technique or not," the president told a group of reporters invited into the Oval Office.
Further, Bush said, "It doesn't make any sense to tell the enemy whether...