The anti-Mukasey movement

I'm pretty agnostic about it. I congratulate my blog-o-colleagues for their efforts, which seem to be proving successful, but think this is really letting Senate Dems off pretty easy. Opposing Mukasey, after all, does nothing other than decreasing the number of war criminals working in the Department of Justice by one. It might not even do that.

If Democrats really wanted to prove to liberals that they think torture's a serious issue, they could start by subpoenaing DOJ's undisclosed torture memoranda, along with David Addington, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, and John Ashcroft--almost all of whom are no longer White House employees--to testify under oath about what, exactly, our CIA and military officers are allowed to do to detainees. If/when the memos were refused and the men didn't show up, they could send the sergeants after 'em. Probably wouldn't change anything, especially in the short-term. But at least it'd prove that they were willing to make an issue of this.