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Deputy AG Nominee: Waterboarding Is Repugnant, Not Torture

thinkprogress.org — Today in his nomination hearing to be Deputy Attorney General, Mark Filip refused to explicitly say whether he believed waterboarding to be torture. He told Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) that he found the interrogation technique “repugnant,” but couldn’t answer without taking “a long hard look at” the information:

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  • hawkeye17, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1Oh nice, he admitted it's "repugnant". How human of him.
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