The fact that my country is having this conversation brings tears to my eyes. The word "torture" is outside of what I can say of myself, my family, my friends. We abhor these acts by members of our country . We don't know how it has come to be that a US president and this administration says and does what they do. I want to scream, strike out, be so angry with them all that they will disappear. My country ius not honorable; we are in a very bad place.
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Noting his "close association" with Giuliani and the fact that Mukasey has served on the GOP candidate's campaign's legal advisory committee, Leahy asked the nominee if he would "totally recuse yourself from any involvement with Mr. Giuliani or any candidate for president."
Mukasey responded: "It is safe to say. It's not only safe to say, I'm saying it too … No ambiguity in the record there."
That may prove to be a lot more than an academic pledge. A federal investigation of Kerik—who withdrew as President Bush's nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security in 2005—appears to be heating up. A lawyer for Kerik told NEWSWEEK that over the next few weeks he expects to meet with Justice Department officials to discuss concerns that prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in New York are preparing to indict his client on criminal tax and corruption charges. One official Kerik's lawyer won't be meeting with—and who won't play any part in the decision—is the man all but certain to become the next attorney general, Michael Mukasey.
Terror Watch, written by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball appears online weekly
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