1.  In impeachment inquiries, there is little if any check on what the Congress is entitled to receive.  Executive privilege is at its nadir when Congress is investigating whether to impeach.

2.  The public demands the Democrats do something besides pass bills the Republicans bottle up in the Senate, and veto once they go the distance along Pennsylvania Ave.

3.  If impeachment is not coming for Gonzo's conduct, then when will it ever be applicable?  This is someone who, beyond lying, simply refused to answer legitimate questions put to him by both the House and the Senate.  The Congress' institutional survival is at stake.  As is the Constitution's.  Last week I watched that slug sitting there with the smirk of a mofo who knows he already has a pardon in the bag, putting up with the yelling coming from the SJC, knowing there's not a darn thing other than yell they could do to him.

4.  All that "wasting time" and "term's almost up" talk assumes Bush and Cheney will leave office when their terms are up.  Given Giuliani's attempt in the aftermath of 9/11 to stay in office past the expiration of his term as Mayor, I am of the position that Bush and Cheney willingly leaving office when their terms expire is not something which can be taken for granted.  

5.  Neither Bush nor Cheney will ever sign anything reducing criminal penalties or restoring habeas, so we should not waste time on that.  We should spend the time on getting rid of them and putting someone into office who will, and therefore make the time spent on those reforms time usefully spent.

I'd rather see the Judiciary Committees spend their time on criminal justice reform legislation like restoring habeas than an impeachment proceeding.

I'm also left wondering if uncovering all of Bush&Co's evil wouldn't go a lot further to "tarnishing his legacy" than what we've already got.

*He's low-hanging fruit, obviously lying and incompetent, and an embarrassment.

*The American public sees Democrats as impotent to take action against these egregious members of the Bush administration. An impeachment investigation of Gonzales will highlight that Democrats can take some action.

*Impeaching Gonzales will take some heat off pressure to impeach Bush/Cheney.

*Impeaching Gonzales might stop some of the most egregious things he is still facilitating at the Justice Dept.

I can guareentee that there are a variety of perspectives.

However - he is probably just a few shades worse than rummy, MAYBE,

except --- NO ONE is watching the guy the way rummy was watched.

whoever replaces gonzo will be a fascist lackey.

PERIOD

let's keep him twisting in the wind till jan '09.

The link contains the WSJ article on this issue.

Now that the WSJ is sold, the chance for the follow up articles is reduced.

We blew the whistle of Fraud upon the Court by Officers of the Court and the
the Dept of Justice employees responded by assisting the fraudulent parties
while aggressively seeking to punish and deny the whistleblower standing under
Article III refusals.

We endeavored strongly against the Motions Attorney of the 3rd Circuit
stating to us that the Circuit refused to place the En Banc rehearing brief
into the record.

After a 3 week campaign to halt such injustice we are now to be lead to
believe that 11 separate justices read the En Banc rehearing "pro se" brief
and decided there is not merits.

The corruption of the System is both rampant and propogative.

Would you consider an article on your blog on the subject of the case
and the US Trustee's refusal to prosecute?

Attached is all that is needed to prove the case in point and below
is a summary of the story, to refresh the memory.

Sincerely
Laser Haas

We have proof the Dept of Justice management has lost its sense of honor and duty.

In the Bankruptcy case of eToys 01-706 (DE 2001) we proved over 100 felony violations by the firm of Traub Bonacquist & Fox and Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnel.

The US Trustee is charged by the Janet Reno Reform Act of 1994 to be the "policing" "watchdog" of public entity bankrupt estates to protect equity holders.

The LAW of 18 USC 3057(a) and 28 USC 586(a)(3)(F) mandates that the US Trustee officially report all malfeasance by any attorney in a bankruptcy case to the US Attorney office for prosecution.

When we placed proofs of the "non disclosure" of "conflict of interest" into the record the Director of the EOUST in Washington D C then replaced the Region 3 Trustee on Dec 22 2004 (you can go to the US Trustee website and see the press release)

Then on Feb 15 2005 the Asst US Trustee placed a Disgorge Motion against Traub Bonacquist  (TBF) into the record for $1.6 million.
(docket item 2195)

The Asst US Trustee stated that he had [fore]warned the parties not to replace any key personnel of the debtor with anyone connected to the retained professionals of the estate(which are thereby Officers of the Court).
(please see Disgorge Motion parts 19 and parts 35)

Despite that warning the parties of TBF as creditor's counsel and  debtor's counsel Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnel (MNAT) did collaboratively draft a HIRING LETTER for Barry Gold.
 (Traub has admitted to paying Barry Gold 4 separate payments of $30,000 each, both pre and post petition)
(please see March 1, 2005 Transcript docket items 2228)

The HIRING LETTER was never revealed until after the deceptions of non disclosure of conflict of interest were proven.

The HIRING LETTER was used by TBF and MNAT to place Barry Gold in as the "wind-down coordinator" of eToys.

The HIRING LETTER also contained and illegal clause that brazanly REwarded Barry Gold for not seeking the Court's approval of his hiring by then giving him the CEO and Presidents Job.

When Traub stopped paying the $30,000 per month, TBF and MNAT had designed that the ESTATE pay Barry Gold $40,000 per month.

All this is admitted and in the record.

The Asst US Trustee also stated that the acts of non disclosure were deliberate, rather than inadvertent, that it was by vastly experienced bankruptcy counsels, that it destroyed the line between Creditor v Debtor, that repetitive affirmative misrepresentation of Rule 2014(Perjury) acts had occurred. That "this is all that is necessary to prove Fraud upon the Court"

Now the Asst US Trustee sought silently to be lenient by not seeking the mandatory disqualification that is required by Code 327(a) as established by the 3rd Circuit and the Supreme Ct (In re Middleton Arms)

Then less than 10 days later, the US Attorney for the new Region 3 Trustee placed a Stipulation
to Settle for only $750,000 into the record.

The Stipulation to Settle also contains ILLEGAL clauses such as

WHEREAS the United States Trustee shall NOT seek to compel TBF to make any additional disclosures.

One of the Additional disclosures the AUSA seeks to help hide is the fact that Barry Gold, MNAT and TBF all have "undisclosed" connections to KB Toys and their owner(s).

As eToys sold the bulk of their assets to KB Toys and their owners such is NOT a "bona fide" sale and is rescindable.

It is also Collusion to Defraud an Estate.

We complained to the Director of the EOUST, the Asst US Trustee and the head of President Bush's Corporate Fraud Task Force.

All 3 parties have resigned.

We also contacted the SEC Bankruptcy Fraud Div in Atlanta GA where we were told they would send the AUSA for Region 3 an Official Intergovernmental Letter for Official Investigation.

The US Attorney for the Region 3 Trustee told the SEC not to send the Letter.

Other OBSTRUCTIONS by the US Attorney for Region 3 also included aggressive acts to strike and expunge all the proofs we place into the record.

Stating that Article III does not apply to bankruptcy proceedings and that we must have their permission to point out fraud to the court.

We also contacted the FBI, the Public Integrity Section of the DOJ, the US Marshalls, the OGE, the OPR, the ORO, the OIG and more.

All referred us to the US Dept of Justice EOUST General Counsel's office.

The problems is, after the Asst US Trustee and the Director of the EOUST resigned.

Alberto Gonzales office Promoted the former REMOVED Region 3 Trustee to the position of Acting General Counsel

She is in charge of investigating her own case.

If you want to see where the power and influence comes from guess who owns KB Toys, Stage Stores and more.

How is it possible that the shareholders of eToys are thrown away, when the Bankrupt estate can now be made whole by causes of actions