Time to show him the door

Alberto Gonzales must go. Actually, he should have been canned months ago, when he was the chief White House counsel and the results of the torture policy that he advocated to the president became clear at Abu Ghraib.

Now Gonzales, an old friend of George W. Bush, is Attorney General, and within the span of a week or so we find out that a study within the Justice Department confirmed what we suspected: that the FBI is misusing the Patriot Act against citizens; and that the recent firings of eight US attorneys appears to be politically motivated and that Ginzales lied to Congress about it.

This is an unsavory and dangerous man.