Holder hits waterboarding, Marc Rich pardon

Carleton Bryant The Washington Times - January 16, 2009, 10:02AM

Attorney General-designate Eric H. Holder Jr. says that waterboarding is “torture” and that he made a “mistake” in recommending a pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich at the end of the Clinton administration, Ben Conery is reporting.

Instead, he said he should have waterboarded Marc Rich.

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Carleton Bryant

Carleton Bryant is a senior editor at The Washington Times, where he oversees the National and Metropolitan desks. He also serves as the newsroom’s internship coordinator. He has served as an assistant managing editor; a National, Metropolitan and Features desk editor; an assistant National desk editor; and a reporter on the National and Metro desks.

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