Mukasey, the rule of law, and the Sox

From the New York Times this morning: should the President obey federal law when "defending the nation?

I want to know how we got back to this point. It seems like we swing back and forth between being a rule of law kind of nation and being a cult-of-the-leader nation. We're heading down a dangerous, dangerous path if we, as a nation, start to think that the President has the inherent authority to ignore federal law so long as he is "defending the nation." What does "defending the nation" even mean? Truman took it to mean controlling steel mills so that the bullets and tanks could continue being built during the Korean War. Bush "defends the nation" by spying on citizens and locking people away. It's too amorphous a concept to really use, and that's why it's so scary. And I'm sure Michael Mukasey knows it.

So why is he saying this stuff?

On another note, just to dilute the bullshit, an article about the Red Sox winning that doesn't include a threat to anyone's life.