It Takes A Yalie

Buried at the end of Chris Suellentrop's examination of whether Alberto Gonzales believes in a) torture, and b) extraconstitutional executive fiat power (answers: a) yes, and b) is the pope a goy?), Harold Koh, our own law school dean, proposes an Alexandrian solution:

He tells the Judiciary Committee, "A simple question you could have asked today was, 'Is the anti-torture statute constitutional?" If Gonzales answers yes, then he does not believe the president can override the statute. Mystery solved. Only one problem with this professorial inquiry: By the time Koh testified, Gonzales was already gone.

Yeah. As if Gonzales would have answered.