WTF

From BBC:

Even those who posed hostile questions in the Senate praised Mr Gonzales' character and his progress from an extremely poor immigrant family, via Harvard University, to become a Supreme Court justice.

His opponents concede that they are not likely to prevent his appointment as the successor to Mr Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft.

I guess not.

They praised his character? Say what? I get that there's nothing lawmakers love more than an example of America's permeable class structure, but his character??? The architect of our current torture policies. Nice.

Of course Fredo says he did not have sex with that woman advocate torture in any way:

The Texan judge defended a robust US policy on terror suspects, but denied that it was responsible for the Abu Ghraib scandal, which he said was "simply people who were morally bankrupt having fun, and I condemn that totally".

I, for one, am not comforted by this explanation.