Mukasey Taps In.

Having survived his evasions on waterboarding, new Attorney General Michael Mukasey looks to start his tenure in the right direction by reopening the internal investigation into warrantless wiretapping, the same investigation that collapsed in 2006 because Dubya would not grant the department the necessary security clearances. “H. Marshall Jarrett, the OPR’s chief counsel, wrote in a letter to several lawmakers yesterday that lawyers in his office ‘recently received the necessary security clearances and are now able to proceed with our investigation.’