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The nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to be Attorney General has been systematically undercovered on the network nightly newscasts. David Gregory's report from the White House for NBC was the first assignment of a correspondent to the controversy since Mukasey was nominated in September. "The issue standing in the way for the judge is the technique called waterboarding, used to simulate drowning" during interrogations, Gregory explained. Mukasey has refused to characterize waterboarding as torture on the grounds that he does "not know what is involved"--what Gregory called a "hedge." Today President George Bush "suggested" that if the Senate refuses to approve Mukasey he may not nominate anybody else, Gregory observed, "leaving him without an Attorney General potentially for the rest of his term."
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