Media Mistreatment of Mukasey Backfires By Cliff Kincaid and Roger Aronoff

Why were liberal Democrats so determined to get Attorney General Michael Mukasey to declare waterboarding a form of torture before he was confirmed to his post? It was another case of what Hillary likes to call "gotcha" politics. In this case, however, Senate Democrats were trying to lay a legal trap for President Bush. It has now backfired on them and their allies in the media.  

The Democrats, Alan Dershowitz noted in a November 7 Wall Street Journal article, were running the risk of coming across as pacifists not committed to winning the war on terrorism. And in a major foreign policy address on November 8, independent Democrat Senator Joseph Lieberman said that some presidential candidates in his party have been "willing to pander" to a "politically paranoid, hyper-partisan sentiment in the Democratic base…"  

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