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Jacob Sullum welcomes the arrival of a (possibly!) competent attorney general.
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Jake Boone | September 26, 2007, 8:39am | #

Jacob Sullum welcomes the arrival of a (possibly!) competent attorney general.
Having read the article, you've stretched the word "welcome" all out of shape there. Not that I disapprove of that.

Adam W. | September 26, 2007, 8:53am | #

Interesting piece, but saying he's an improvement over Gonzales is not saying much at all.

Rick Barton | September 26, 2007, 11:16am | #

Jacob:

He suggests "a new adjudicatory framework" may be needed to handle terrorism cases, for instance, but does not pretend the president can create one on his own.

Yeah, unlike his predecessor. Perhaps he has more regard for the division of powers paradigm.

Gabe Harris | September 26, 2007, 11:32am | #

He is not an improvement...he hates the bill of rights...Hamilton who wanted to ruint he country hated the bill fo rights....these people aren't just ignorant...they are evil...mukasey seems to be a smarter evil person than gonzalez...reason seems to imploy a editorial strategy of hey we know you guys know these guys are criminals but everyone that reads this probably ha s a good job and things MIGHT get better because all of these problems are just accidents.

Judge Mukasey made light of Ali Mohamed's failure to show at the "Day of Terror" trial. Because if Ali had testified, lawyers like Stavis would have ripped the lid off the years of failure by the FBI to stop bin Laden's juggernaut.

T | September 26, 2007, 2:39pm | #

Just for giggles, would somebody throw out their candidate for most recent competent attorney general?

I'm voting for Barr, although he seems to be an exception in a long line of dispiriting losers.