Choices are easy for LAT

In testimony before the Senate judiciary panel, the nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, said that if water-boarding is torture then it is illegal, but he also said he didn't know if it's torture. Seems reasonable. He's a judge who sits behind a desk most of the time. What could he know about water-boarding. That doesn't bother LAT editorial writers though, who also mostly sit around. They think they're experts on water-boarding -- after all, they've read all the blogs. Mukasey was right to withhold judgement until he learns more about the subject, perhaps by observing it.