Holder: Waterboarding Is Torture

Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder faced often aggressive grilling from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. But one of the first statements made by President-elect Barack Obama's designee to head the Department of Justice during the confirmation hearing was perhaps the most important.

Under oath, with not just senators but the world watching, Holder declared that "waterboarding is torture."

Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, referred to waterboarding -- which is broadly recognized as torture but which President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their legal aides defended, at times obliquely, at times overtly -- in his opening round of questions for Holder.

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Wow. That this is considered news shows how depraved the U.S. justice system has become. Will anything change? Will anyone be prosecuted? Tom

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