Gonzales out soon -- CBS

When a paper other than the NYT reports that federal laws have been broken I'll reconsider. For now, there's not a whit evidence behind any such assertion. Typical NYT stuff.

Rod, In this as in many other matters we can't state with certainty that no laws could possibly have been broken. That said, the Adam Cohen piece you link to illustrates precisely what an overblown pack of nonsense this whole affair has been: IF a number of events took place for which we have no evidence, THEN several Federal laws MAY have been broken. When you cut through Cohen's hypotheticals, you get exactly two avenues for investigation: 1. The allegation that the firings may have been specifically intended to obstruct pending USA criminal investigations. 2. The allegation that Domenici's phone call was obstruction of justice. As of now, the evidence for #1 is scant, bordering on nil. As for #2, it would be far more significant if Domenici had urged the USA to stay away from certain matters, instead of pushing for more aggressive action by the USA.
This is very much a classic political scandal, and no doubt we'll eventually see Gonzalez and other DOJ officials resign in "disgrace." That's how DC works: When the political waves are too high, you throw guys overboard. But that doesn't mean there's any underlying impropriety, much less illegal behavior. If G.W. Bush hadn't blundered around idiotically in Iraq for 4 years and permanently deflated his Administration's public approval ratings, who honestly would be interested in this "scandal"?
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