The Nail in Gonzales' Coffin?

Monkey See, Monkey Do

How low can he go? George Bush's overreaching Attorney-General, Alberto Gonzales keeps showing himself to be ever more dishonest and unethical.

The latest episode in the Gonzales drama plays like something out of The Godfather. Then Attorney-General John Ashcroft lies in a bed in intensive care, recovering from surgery. His aide, James B. Comey, then the acting U.S. attorney general, gets a late night call on his way home. It's from Ashcroft's aide. Mrs. Ashcroft has received word that two Bush aides are en route to the hospital.

Comey orders his security detail to head for the George Washington Medical Centre. He also calls FBI Director Robert Mueller to get to the hospital and protect Ashcroft from any coercion.

Comey speeds to the hospital and arrives just in time to head off the intruders, one of whom was the man who would ultimately succeed Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales. The purpose of their visit, or raid, was to get an incapacitated Ashcroft to approve a secret national security directive authorizing warrantless wiretaps. Comey beat them to the punch and they were sent packing.

Comey, testifying before a senate committee, revealed details of that raid and the aftermath that sound like something straight out of Hollywood. The drama aside, his evidence leaves no doubt that Alberto Gonzales is utterly morally unfit to hold the post of Attorney General of the US.