Senator Feinstein, who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, decided to support Mr. Mukasey’s nomination to the Attorney General position. Mukasey’s refusal to answer questions regarding the definition of torture was not enough for Feinstein to reject him. For her, it was sufficient that he was better than Alberto Gonzales. Together perhaps with the hope that a future Congress might ban “certain interrogation techniques” and Mukasey (or heirs) would support such Congress’ decisions as constitutional? How low we have sunk: “decent” jurists and senators in effect publically accept “interrogation techniques” (=torture) they would instantly reject if practiced by other countries on US citizens. Perfect example for the dictatorial regimes our foreign policies seem to sow or strengthen by the day…