In case there was any question about this...

Michael Mukasey is awful. In a speech he gave at Boston College Law School, the Attorney General defended John Yoo, David Attington, et al., only without explicitly naming any of them.

My favorite part? This little gem:

The difficulty and novelty of the legal questions these lawyers confronted is scarcely mentioned; indeed, the vast majority of the criticism is unaccompanied by any serious legal analysis. In addition, it is rarely acknowledged that those public servants were often working in an atmosphere of almost unimaginable pressure, without the academic luxury of endless time for debate. Equally ignored is the fact that, by all accounts I have seen or heard, including but not limited to Jack Goldsmith’s book, those lawyers reached their conclusions in good faith based upon their best judgments of what the law required.

If Yoo was under such immense pressure that he didn't have the time to bother with getting the advice of his colleagues, then how did he so assuredly dismantle the precedent - established let's keep in mind, by American lawyers - of post-war international law and the Geneva Convention? That right there is proof he didn't act in "good faith." Give me a break.