Gonzales's Stock Has Shot Way Up: He Threatened to Resign if the White House Impeded the Congressman Jefferson Investigation

U.S. Attorney General Gonzales and other top law enforcement officials threatened to resign if the White House ordered him to return documents seized in a raid on Congressman Jefferson's Washington office.

Now that's the type of independence and tenacity that I like to see from an attorney general. He's finally established the lines between his friendship with President Bush and what is required of him to uphold the law.

Attorney General Gonzales's stock has gone way up with me. He needs to stick to his guns; he's absolutely right in protecting the integrity of a criminal case...even one against a member of the Washington elite.

This is about criminal law, not Congressional privileges. Congress ought to remember that before they go rushing to the defense of one of their own who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. How many other Congressional hands are in that same cookie jar, I wonder? That's what this is really about.

Now would be a good time to give the "come to Jesus" speech to Congress.