Michael Mukasey was confirmed Thursday evening along party lines to be U.S. attorney general.
For those who missed it — or who’ve already blocked it out — Mukasey was nominated to the federal bench by President Reagan and recently retired as the chief judge of the brass-knuckled U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
AG Mukasey might not have a clear opinion as to whether or not so-called “waterboarding” is torture {wink, wink}, but he certainly understands the primary role of the Justice Department post-9/11: To beat genocidal foreign terrorists utterly senseless.
You can’t really ask for much more from Uncle Sam’s top law enforcement official.
