I wish his “god” would remind him of the ten commandments.

Wasn’t he the AG that appointed Robert S. Mueller to head the FBI, recruited and nurtured JOHN YOO and the other refugee who crafted the PATRIOT ACT and now is teaching Constitutional law at Georgertown?

Q.  Senator Ashcroft, at a June 17, 2004 press conference, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated that, at the request of George J. Tenet, he caused a detainee known as “Triple X” (a/k/a Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul) to be hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross.  In light of that admission, do you agree that a criminal investigation is warranted into whether Mr. Tenet and Mr. Rumsfeld violated the law, including the War Crimes Act of 1996?

Walter Dellinger said, at the 2:47 mark of the video, “...the Office of Legal Counsel is given the delegated authority to make law for the Executive Branch I think that’s binding.”  Excuse me?  Isn’t is the duty of Congress to make the laws?  This statement clearly shows the current administration’s feelings on Executive power. 
John Ashcroft said, when asked about a statute on torture, “I wasn’t an expert in this aspect when I was in office.”  Once again, excuse me?  If you aren’t an expert in law then why in the world were you the Attorney General of the United States?  I guess he was only an expert in covering the mammary glands of statues and singing to pre-recorded tracks.

These guys are assholes.

Ashcroft’s argument to defend waterboarding is probably due to this being a “NEW KIND OF WAR.”
This is precisely what has gotten the Bush administration out of the Geneva Convention, and created the “go it alone” policy around the United Nations. It is terribly unfortunate that these people have lived by this policy, were entirely consumed by the monster that they have created, and must now go down with defending it. 
Their time will soon be at and end, and they will grit their teeth until all of their teeth fall out of their head when they witness the first African American President enter the White House.

Didn’t we convict and hang Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American prisoners after WWII?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110201170.html

The answer is YES.

When we’re invaded, we’ll be treated much worse.

This statement by Ashcroft only shows the warped and myopic view that this administration and those around it hold.  Waterboarding is torture because it uses physical violence to coerce someone into talking/confessing.  This is terrible and wrong.  Ashcroft should not be able to get away with saying this in an open forum.  tragic.

...no torture, the Congress should have applied that during the interrogation of John Ashcroft.

Wasn’t much in Missouri and less in Washington.

How convenient to forget crimes against humanity.

All the Nazi officials at the end of WWII would have had to do to save themselves is to plead “I can’t remember what happened.” Apparently?