South Carolina Chimes In On Holder

Some Senate Republicans are holding up the confirmation of Eric Holder as Attorney General because of concerns that since he considers waterboarding torture, he may prosecute someone or ones who were involved in waterboarding.

From Huffington Post:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, agreed with Leahy that Holder can't rule out prosecutions before he becomes the top prosecutor.

"What I believe we should do is not politicize this, the idea of prosecutions coming from the hard left. Making a commitment that we'll never prosecute someone is probably not the right way to proceed, either," he said. "I think President Obama's administration is going to have a forward look on this, unless there's something egregious out there I think they'll move on. But no I don't expect him to rule it in or rule it out."

"In individual cases, if there's allegations of mistreatment judges can handle that and you can determine what course to take," he added. "If we've committed -- if we've made mistakes in the past, let's clean them up. But this idea of criminalizing policy differences would be bad for the country and would create a bad precedent."