WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. senators from both parties peppered U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey with questions Wednesday about waterboarding and intelligence-gathering.
Mukasey, in his first appearance as attorney general before the Senate Judiciary Committee, sidestepped questions about whether waterboarding -- an interrogation technique simulating drowning -- is legal. His refusal to answer similar questions threatened to detour his confirmation last year.