Human rights activists demonstrate waterboarding on Capitol Hill prior to the Senate vote on Mukasey in Washington DC

epa01166087 Human rights activists demonstrate waterboarding on a volunteer outside the Dirksen Senate office building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC USA on 06 November 2007. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote today on the nomination of Michael Mukasey, President Geroge W. Bush’s nominee for Attorney General. Mukasey refuses to say whether waterbaording, which simulates drowning, is or is not torture. EPA/MATTHEW CAVANAUGH