Alberto Gonzales Testifies Before Judiciary Committee

Glenn Greenwald (http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/) is covering the testimony of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Greenwald’s blog also includes a link to a video feed. Here are some of Greenwald’s thoughts:

The reason some of them are being hostile to Gonzales here, and the reason some Congressional Republicans beyond this Committee have called for Gonzales’ resignation, is not because they suddenly decided that it is important that the Justice Department act ethically or that lying to Congress is a bad thing. Instead, it is because they have long disliked Gonzales because they perceive that he has been insufficiently aggressive in enforcing immigration laws — they see him as a symbol of all that they dislike in what they perceive to be the Bush administration’s lax enforcement efforts. Some of them are dissatisfied because they perceive he has been insufficiently aggressive in enforcing obscenity laws.

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What do our readers think?  I must admit that I am not sure what to think about all of this.

KJ