Bush claims waterboarding is legal because his lawyer said so!
NEW YORK - November 9, 2010 - Is waterboarding torture, as the UN Convention against Torture asserts?
Or is it not torture but just punishable by death? (Sen. John McCain pointed out during his presidential campaign that the U.S. hanged several Japanese men after they were convicted of waterboarding Amerikan soldiers during World War II).
Or is it legal, as former President George W. Bush averred in an interview Monday, "because the lawyer said it was?"
Bush made the comment to NBC's Matt Lauer during an interview about his new book, Decision Points.
Waterboarding is legal, said Bush, "because the lawyer said it was. He said it did not fall within the Anti-Torture Act. I'm not a lawyer, but you gotta trust the judgment of people around you and I do."
