More rope to hang Gonzo with (and Bush too, maybe)

tell me, does this sound like routine bush administration behavior...? never mind... silly question... of COURSE it does... using your executive power in the most potentially criminal ways is only to be expected from this president...

Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the investigation, according to government records and interviews.

Bush personally intervened to sideline the Justice Department probe in April 2006 by taking the unusual step of denying investigators the security clearances necessary for their work.

It is unclear whether the president knew at the time of his decision that the Justice inquiry -- to be conducted by the department's internal ethics watchdog, the Office of Professional Responsibility -- would almost certainly examine the conduct of his attorney general.

Had it not been quashed, a Justice Department inquiry into the domestic eavesdropping program would likely have examined the actions of Alberto Gonzales.

Sources familiar with the halted inquiry said that if the probe had been allowed to continue, it would have examined Gonzales's role as his subsequent oversight of the program as attorney general.

i truly hope this utterly damning story by murray waas gets the traction it deserves... as i've said nauseatingly often, the best gift i could possibly receive is for bush, cheney, and the whole goddam cabal to be sent packing...

(thanks to atrios...)

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