It Depends on the Isness of Water and the Harshness of Boards
As it stands now (after Senators Feinstein and Schumer seem to have caved), Michael Mukasey will become the 81st Attorney General of the United States. This is despite his apparent inability to state that waterboarding is torture, and that it is illegal.
Oddly enough, the US government has had no such problem in the past when the US officials have harshly criticized other regimes for using precisely the same tactics. If there is a new chapter being written in American history called, None Dare Call It Torture, it's too late. We already did call it torture. Yet, there is a chapter being currently written by some in our country entitled, None Dare Call It Treason. Hopefully that chapter will be criticized just as harshly.
Perhaps some of the people who might write this crucial piece will be from the US military. Here is a letter from retired military judges (JAGs), who have no difficulty connecting the dots between water and boarding and torture.