John Ashcroft says something that has no basis in history or legal precedent: that "waterboarding" has been consistently deemed legal. It is demonstrably untrue, false, self-evidently wrong to anyone who has access to Google. There is no defense of this bald-faced untruth except that Ashcroft cannot bring himself to realize that he authorized war crimes.
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