I've written many times about Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the anti-Constitution, Bush the Torturer protector, Alberto Gonzalez clone (only a bit smarter), Bush conservative Republican loyalist first and foremost above all, to the extreme detriment of this nation and its people.

(Just plug in Mukasey on the Quicksearch menu button on this site and read more about this hypocritical, arrogant, lying courtier of the Bush imperial kingdom.)

Unfortunately, Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer are responsible for Mukasey's confirmation, which is unforgivable.

Bush minion Mukasey doesn't know if waterboarding is torture (thus defying the Constitution and Geneva Conventions and ignoring war crimes' precedent and US history) and, as far as the FISA bill, Mike hasn't met a telecom company that shouldn't get retroactive immunity for breaking the law.

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent article about Mukasey's most recent lies; some excerpts below.

Mukasey the prevaricator said, "Officials "shouldn't need a warrant when somebody with a phone in Iraq picks up a phone and calls somebody in the United States because that's the call that we may really want to know about. And before 9/11, that's the call that we didn't know about. We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went."

"These are multiple falsehoods here, and independently, this whole claim makes no sense. There is also a pretty startling new revelation here about the Bush administration's pre-9/11 failure that requires a good amount of attention.  Even under the "old" FISA, no warrants are required where the targeted person is outside the U.S. (Afghanistan) and calls into the U.S. Thus, if it's really true, as Mukasey now claims, that the Bush administration knew about a Terrorist in an Afghan safe house making Terrorist-planning calls into the U.S., then they could have -- and should have -- eavesdropped on that call and didn't need a warrant to do so. So why didn't they? Mukasey's new claim that FISA's warrant requirements prevented discovery of the 9/11 attacks and caused the deaths of 3,000 Americans is disgusting and reckless, because it's all based on the lie that FISA required a warrant for targeting the "Afghan safe house." It just didn't. Nor does the House FISA bill require individual warrants when targeting a non-U.S. person outside the U.S.

"The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the Mukasey speech and is asking some of the right questions:

Mukasey did not specify the call to which he referred. He also did not explain why the government, if it knew of telephone calls from suspected foreign terrorists, hadn't sought a wiretapping warrant from a court established by Congress to authorize terrorist surveillance, or hadn't monitored all such calls without a warrant for 72 hours as allowed by law. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for more information."

This is the worst president and vice president, the worst Cabinet, one of the three worst Attorneys General, the worst administration and the most criminal in US history.

And even worse: impeachment is still off the table.