Duckworth Condemns Confirmation of Torture Memo Author Steven Bradbury

Combat Veteran and Senator Tammy Duckworth spoke at length on the Senate floor this afternoon urging her colleagues to vote against Steven Bradbury's nomination to be General Counsel of the Department of Transportation. Citing Bradbury's role as a lead author of the so-called "torture memos" and his work finding legal loopholes to justify the Bush Administration's use of torture methods like waterboarding, sleep deprivation and cramped confinement, Duckworth explained how Bradbury's work endangers the lives of U.S. troops currently serving in harm's way, and how his compromised moral character disqualifies him from government service.