CNN resports Attorney General Mukasey has appointed John Durham, a prosecutor from the U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut, to lead a criminal investigation into the destruction of the CIA torture tapes.
Color me surprised. Not that this was a criminal act, but that Attorney General Michael “I don’t know if it’s torture or not.” Mukasey said said there likely was a criminal act. Of course he didn’t appoint an independent counsel, but that’s because we should just trust the government and of course, independent counsels are political tools.