Mukasey's Confession

'Out of the mouths of babes," goes the old saying -- to which we now may add, "and from the mouths of attorneys general."

When Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey went before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week to testify about the Bush administration's use of torture to obtain information from terrorists and suspected terrorists, it's fair to assume that he had no intention of highlighting the moral absurdity of the government's position. Still, that's exactly what he did.