It's probably better to have no Attorney General rather than a craven, self-serving one dead set on subverting the Constitution and the liberty and justice for which our ancestors fought and died.

US Dept of Justice Nears Collapse Under The Man Who Services Bush's Pleasure [or something like that]

A conservative daily, The Washington Post, is reporting the resignation of first-string Gonzales Goon Squad (GGS) player Monica Goodling. Goodling is the person who felt the need to invoke her fifth amendment right not to incriminate herself before anyone in Congress has had a chance to ask her any questions about a rovian plot to steal the 2008 presidential election by replacing as many US attorneys as possible with unqualified Republican political operatives. And that's not all that went afoul this week: three career attorneys in Minneapolis demoted themselves rather than work for another GGS operative, Rachel K. Paulose, who was recently installed in that city.

Gonzales' Goon Squad Backs Down, for Now

The AP is reporting that independent videographer, Joshua Wolf, has been released from federal detention after 226 days. He had refused to surrender video footage [that we now know shows mostly police brutality] obtained at the G8 protests in San Francisco in 2005. Instead of surrendering it to the secretive [and we now know politically compromised] federal grand jury that was investigating the injury of a police officer during the protests, Wolf arranged to have the footage posted publicly on the web. While the Gonzales Goon Squad (GGS) is still claiming the prerogative to compel Wolf to testify in person before the grand jury, Wolf made a clear public statement immediately following his release that he has no intention of testifying before the grand jury. Watching the footage and making the assumption that GGS wants to win its case, I'd think it would be unlikely that they would actually try to make the guy testify. But once you know that one third of our current federal prosecutors were chosen for their political loyalty to a would-be dictator over their professional abilities, you realize that winning cases might not be what it's all about anymore.

One of the Attorney General's chief advisors has made it clear that she intends to invoke her Fifth Ammendment right not to be compelled to testify against herself under oath. Isn't that nice [and ironic].

US Attorney General Attempts to Politicize Dept of Justice

Alberto Gonzales is the worst Attorney General the United States has ever had. Of course he should resign. Now, will someone with a spine please ask Bush to resign? Or, at least begin impeachment proceedings?