Senator Feinstein,

I urge you to reconsider your decision to allow Mr. Mukasey to continue the confirmation process. Now, more than ever, the morals we have stood for as a nation are under attack by those who would compromise long standing standards of conduct with regard to the treatment of prisoners. We need an Attorney General that’s willing to state explicitly what and what is not torture. Why don’t you agree, Ms. Feinstein? Is waterboarding torture or not? Why won’t you demand a yes or no answer to that question from Mr. Mukasey? Is this a morally ambiguous question for you, Ms. Feinstein?

Even though I no longer vote in California, most of my family does. I promise I will urge them to help vote you out of office when you come up for re-election. You see, their morals are not ambiguously defined. Waterboarding IS torture. They know it, I know it. Why don’t you know it?