Attorney General-designate Eric Holder confirmed to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that waterboarding is torture and that the prison at Gitmo will be closed.
Thus, on January 20th, competence and the rule of law return to the White House. And the Justice Department will be run by a man with impeccable credentials. For the record, Bush's first AG was appointed to that post only after losing a Senate re-election contest to a dead man. (No...really.) His second AG was nowhere near qualified for the post. And the current guy is essentially a lap dog.
Rachel Maddow's report on yesterday's confirmation hearing...
