Utah [Salt Lake City Tribune] Here is a brief (and slightly exaggerated) summary of the Senate hearings on the attorney general nomination of Michael Mukasey:

Torture, torture, waterboarding, torture, porn, waterboarding, waterboarding, WATERBOARDING!!!!

Did you catch it?

Yeah, that porn question came from Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch.

While the rest of the judiciary committee was worried about the constitutionality of interrogation tactics, Hatch wanted to push the Justice Department to beef up its obscenity prosecutions.

And he doesn’t want FBI agents to focus just on the really freaky porn either.

“The cases that are brought focus narrowly on the most extreme material, rather than on the more mainstream obscenity,” Hatch said during
a hearing in mid-October. If the Senate confirms Mukasey, he will have a little more than a year to figure out what “mainstream obscenity” means and how to prosecute it.