The trail of testimony has already gone into the White House.
It is a fantasy to think that this took place without Bush’s knowledge, involvement and approval.
The trial of breadcrumbs goes right down the hall and into the Oval Office.
Prosecutorgate is not about Alberto Gonzales. It’s about impeachment.
Not because Democrats want impeachment, but because testimony under oath, under the penalty of perjury, will reveal that high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed. And that additional ones, like destruction of evidence, were subsequently committed in the process of covering up the original crimes.
The White House has already begun to make claims of executive privilege and is trying to block testimony, and higher up it goes, the more adamant they will be about refusing testimony. They will speechify, and name call, and stall. They will hide documents and probably destroy some. They will search for distractions. If they can find generals on the Joint Chiefs reckless enough to go along, they may even start a new war.
In resisting, they will create new impeachable offenses.
Perhaps the Supreme Court, which made him president, will try to save him, by supporting executive privilege. The only way for Congress to then get at the truth, past the Court’s roadblock, is through impeachment.
Perhaps Karl Rove will fall on his sword (It was all me! Farewell, I die for my Ceaser!
To become a billionaire lobbyist-consultant instead! Such sweet sorrow!). But then who will they they blame for the next scandal, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
From Prosecutorgate, every road leads to impeachment.
And it’s right that it started with Alberto.
