Mukasey won't say whether or not waterboarding is torture. Andrew Sullivan comes down hard on Mukasey and Congress if they go ahead and confirm him.
Alas, the president almost certainly will never be prosecuted for the war crimes he has committed. He has already seen to that and so, shamefully, has the Congress by passing a law that retroactively granted him immunity. Surely that is bad enough. To compound that by allowing an attorney general to take office by refusing to say whether he will uphold the law in the face of the Cheney-style Protector-Presidency is inexcusable. This is history in the making. Who will defend the rule of law?
Write your Congress and tell them that you don't support torture. This is America. Let your voice be heard.
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