Friday, January 16, 2009

Obama pick rejects waterboarding

Eric Holder, the US attorney-general choice nominated by Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has said he believes the controversial interrogation method of "waterboarding" to be torture.

Speaking at his confirmation hearing at the US senate on Thursday, Holder also said he did not think a US president had the power to "immunise" an intelligence offcer to carry out torture and not face charges. "No-one is above the law, the president has a constitutional obligation to faithfully execute the law of the United States," he said in Washington DC.

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