If anyone thinks for a moment that the soon-to-be Attorney General is going to be better than the last one has got to be kidding themselves. True, Mukasey looks a little less sleazy than Alberto but when it comes to the game of semantics he has been training to lie and dodge Congressional questions from the get go. He condemns torture which is a good thing but doesn't see pretending to drown somebody (i.e. waterboarding) as such. The guy is a match made in neo-con heaven for The Decider.
From RawStory:
"If water boarding is torture, torture is not constitutional," Mukasey said, claiming that he was not familiar with the specifics of the process.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called that answer a "massive hedge," and he explained the specifics of the practice -- strapping down a detainee and pouring water over his face to simulate drowning. He asked if that practice would be considered constitutional.
"If it amounts to torture it is not constitutional," is all Mukasey would say.
Whitehouse scolded Mukasey, saying he was "very disappointed" in his "very semantic answer."
"Sorry," Mukasey mumbled.
Is "sorry" the new "I can't recall?" Does it really even matter if the Senate is going to confirm him no matter what he does or says? Senators Whitehouse and Leahy may look good during the hearings, but if Mukasey ends up holding the same shovel that Gonzales put down what difference does it make?
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