A People of Unclean Lips. That really pretty much says it.

Isaiah 6:5

How can they possible even consider in an intelligent manner Corker’s hypothetical, or anything else, w/out hard information on stuff like that.

OT – Mukasey is all on board with the Obamites that there really isn’t any reason for pardons, bc no one is going to do anything, anyway. I’m also wondering how domestic pardons would enter into to foreign investigations and solidify jurisdiction on some claims, with the US having made its “final act” by pardoning?

In any event, undeterred by being stricken dumb in front of the Federalist Society while advocating for torture, Mukasey opines:

Mr. Mukasey, whose nomination as attorney general last year was threatened by his refusal to say whether he considered waterboarding to be torture, said the lawyers who authorized the surveillance and interrogation programs had done so in the belief that they were following the law.

“In those circumstances,” he said, “there is no occasion to consider prosecution, and there is no occasion to consider pardon.”

“If the word goes out to the contrary,” he said, “then people are going to get the message, which is that if you come up with an answer that is not considered desirable in the future you might face prosecution, and that creates an incentive not to give an honest answer but to give an answer that may be acceptable in the future. It also creates some incentive in people not to ask in the first place.”

Awww – isn’t that cute? So, I’m guessing the CIA officer who had to be reprimanded for treating the torture sessions as personal entertainment events just thought she was following the law, the CIA officer who had his dead torture victim dumped in an unmarked grave, the disappeared children, the human experimentation with drugs and abuse, all with the WH’s direct knowledge, since at least the fall fo 2002, that it was making massive “mistakes” about the terrorism involvement of those it was rounding up and torturing. The lies to Congress, the lies to even the Sup Ct (Clement’s assertions even while the Arar case was pending) the destruction of evidence, the “classification” of legal analysis, Haynes proceeding in the face of every single top JAG saying he was wrong, and on and on.

Incredible.