Breaking: Attorney General Mukasey Collapses

Mukasey Collapses While Delivering Keynote At Federalist Society

Reports are coming in by from people who are still at the annual Federalist Society gathering at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., that U.S. Attorney General Mukasey collapsed while speaking tonight.

Paramedics are reportedly working on him on stage, while a human shield of audience members has been placed in front of him for privacy.

The audience is praying. The early word says this is a stroke, although we emphasize nothing official has been released.

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Mukasey refuses to answer Waterboarding question

In a written response to questions from Senate Democrats today, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey refused to explicitly say whether he believed waterboarding to be torture. In the four-page letter, Mukasey called the interrogation technique “over the line” and “repugnant” on “a personal basis,” but added that he would need the “actual facts and circumstances” to strike a “legal opinion”:

Hypotheticals are different from real life and in any legal opinion the actual facts and circumstances are critical.

CNN’s Ed Henry notes that with his “facts and circumstances” hedge, “essentially Michael Mukasey is dodging the question of whether legally waterboarding is torture.”
-- ThinkProgress.org

Well, I know a few techniques that might loosen his tongue.

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