Make of it what you will. One quote sticks out for me:
My colleagues who oppose his confirmation have gone out of their way to praise his character and qualifications. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, for one, commended Judge Mukasey as “a brilliant lawyer, a distinguished jurist and by all accounts a good man.”
I’m sorry. If you can’t look me in the eye and tell me waterboarding is torture, then I could never think of you as a good man.
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