From Think Progress:

Schumer needs to shut his piehole. Last November, he and Feinstein were pimping for Mukasey and thought he’d make a great attorney general. Fucking idiots.

Congress will set whatever rules King Shit For Brains tells them to set………

From CNN:

“Although the Supreme Court settled the constitutional question of whether the Guantanamo detainees have the right to habeas corpus, the court stopped well short of detailing how the … proceedings must be conducted,” Mukasey said.

“In other words, the Supreme Court left many significant questions open, and it is well within the historic role and competence of Congress and the executive branch to attempt to resolve them.”

Poor Mukasey:

Attorney General Michael Mukasey says he never has sought the spotlight, instead living by his parents’ axiom of achieving success by keeping his head down and working hard.

Look where that landed him: at the helm of the Justice Department, defending unpopular Bush administration policies and picking the best among bad options for fighting terrorists and crime.

The irony is not lost on Mukasey, who has begun to settle into the job that he undertook five months ago - one he says he never asked or competed for.

This is still America, sir. You could have declined the offer.

During a Los Angeles news conference, he shut down a reporter who suggested gang members should be considered domestic terrorists and subjected to waterboarding, an interrogation tactic that simulates drowning and is called torture by critics. “I’m not going to talk about interrogation techniques,” Mukasey snapped.

You see, that’s where I think you are a crappy public servant, sir. It is your friggin’ job to talk about it! Any time yout think you’re above the position you hold, then THERE IS THE DOOR!

A case of blatant dereliction of duty. Mukasey fits into the Bush/republican mode perfectly.

Mukasey Refuses Probe of Bush Aides

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday refused to refer the House’s contempt citations against two of President Bush’s top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey says they committed no crime.

Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers were right in refusing to provide Congress White House documents or testify about the firings of federal prosecutors.

“The department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute Mr. Bolten or Ms. Miers,” Mukasey wrote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The House voted two weeks ago to cite Bolten and Mukasey for contempt of Congress and seek a grand jury investigation. Most Republicans boycotted the vote.

Mukasey was given a week to reply but only needed one day. It surprises me that he even made the attempt. Against justice and the will of the people, republicans will protect their own.

Keith Olbermann talks about Mukasey’s testimony to congress yesterday.

Well thank you so much for confirming a prick who couldn’t even decide if waterboarding is torture. Another Bush lacky. Mukasey has refused lawmakers’ demands for information as the Justice Department investigates the destruction of tapes showing CIA interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects. Now get this….. he states in a letter to them:

“At my confirmation hearing, I testified that I would act independently, resist political pressure and ensure that politics plays no role in cases brought by the Department of Justice”

Yes, resist political pressure to do what’s right. The only political pressure that will play a role with him is the pressure to cover the criminals asses.

More at CNN

Now we’ll see what Mukasey is made of. I think I already know……….

From Froomkin:

The White House is refusing to let special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald turn over to congressional investigators key documents from his investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity as a covert CIA operative, including reports of interviews with President Bush, Vice President Cheney and five top White House aides.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman disclosed this morning that [tag]Fitzgerald is cooperating with the congressional investigation[/tag] and had agreed to turn over the documents — until the White House intervened.

Describing a renewed sense of urgency in the wake of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s recent assertion that “five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved” in the public disclosure of false information about the leak, Waxman today appealed to newly installed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to overrule his White House masters and release the documents.

“I hope you will not accede to the White House objections,” Waxman wrote in his letter to Mukasey. “During the Clinton Administration, your predecessor, Janet Reno, made an independent judgment and provided numerous FBI interview reports to the Committee, including reports of interviews with President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and three White House Chiefs of Staff. I have been informed that Attorney General Reno neither sought nor obtained White House consent before providing these interview records to the Committee. I believe the Justice Department should exercise the same independence in this case.”

If Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey wants to know what he is up against in restoring stability to the Justice Department, he is being urged by the department’s employees in Minnesota, as well as by prominent lawyers and law professors here, to consider an early visit to the United States Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis.

The 34-year-old lawyer who holds the job, Rachel K. Paulose, is routinely described by colleagues in Minneapolis and Washington as representative of much that went wrong at the department under Alberto R. Gonzales, the former attorney general. During his tenure, several United States attorneys were replaced with lawyers, like Ms. Paulose, who had relatively little experience as prosecutors or managers but were considered fiercely loyal to the Bush administration.

Full article at the NY Times