Gonzales at the House and More

The Washington Post has a summary of yesterday's Gonzales testimony to the House Judiciary Committee: House GOP Stands Behind Gonzales.

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has a better summary at Alberto Gonzales, Zen Master. "Instead, the AG answers some questions with a giggle and most others with the same old catchphrases we've heard so often...The fact that the attorney general can't even be bothered to pull out a thesaurus after all these weeks—even if only to create the illusion that these nonanswers come from him as opposed to a list of pre-approved talking points—reveals just how little he cares about what Congress and the public think of him anymore."

Kevin Drum adds "Alberto Gonzales has learned this lesson well. Normally, cabinet officers who have been caught in multiple obvious lies have to either resign or else seriously try to defend themselves. But Gonzales realizes this is just tradition. Unless House Democrats have the votes to impeach him, he doesn't have to do anything. He can just mock them to their face and there's nothing much they can do about it."

And here' s an article about how David Iglesias says "My job now is to seek full vindication".

Meanwhile McClatchy reports White House sought investigations of voter fraud allegations before elections. "Only weeks before last year's pivotal midterm elections, the White House urged the Justice Department to pursue voter-fraud allegations against Democrats in three battleground states, a high-ranking Justice official has told congressional investigators."