It would be terrible if doctors were to withhold treatment for pain just to get Mr. Mukasey to talk about what he knows about the Bush Administration's torture regime.

And if someone did, in fact, waterboard him while he is in the hospital, I would hope that no miserable creep would try to cover it up or try to prevent Attorney General Mukasey from obtaining justice for what he endured.

See for report:

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department says Attorney General Michael Mukasey is "conscious, conversant and alert" after collapsing during a speech in Washington.

Spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement that the attorney general's vital statistics are strong and he is in good spirits. But the nation's top law enforcement official will spend the night in George Washington University Hospital for observation.

Mukasey had loss consciousness during the speech.

Carr says Mukasey is getting excellent care and appreciates all of the good wishes and prayers he has received."

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Attorney General Mukasey was roughly twenty minutes into a speech defending the administration's torture policies and particularly arguing against prosecutions of people who made decisions in the aftermath of 9/11 (essentially arguing against what he believed amounted to the criminalization of policy differences).

Some seven or eight minutes prior to the incident a heckler start shouting, calling Mukasey a "tyrant." But the AG seemed unfazed by this; and members of the audience shouted the heckler down.

The eyewitness tells me that Mukasey seemed particularly in earnest about the argument he was making. And when he first began to falter it appeared he was merely choking up. Soon, what at first appeared to be choking up blended into slurred words. Twenty to thirty seconds later he collapsed, his fall broken by a nearby FBI agent.

The room fell silent. After a moment there were shouts from the table where Mukasey's wife was sitting, calling to turn down the stage lights. A woman in an evening gown, presumably a doctor, ran up to the stage and the FBI agents hovering over Mukasey allowed her to attend to him.

Lesson:  getting earnest about defending torture yields an embarrassing public collapse.