The fight over the attorney scandal escalated when former White House Counsel Harriet Miers failed to show at a House Judiciary hearing which she had been subpoenaed for to give testimony -- and may be heading for the courts.
Connect the Justice Department dots and you see an insidious effort to corrupt the American electoral system. It's Watergate without the break-in or the bagmen.
Attorney General Gonzales' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee was a case lesson in obfuscation, and not even Republican senators were buying it.
The attorney scandal is a cover-up revolving around efforts by the Bush administration to disenfranchise African-American voters in communities where the vote is close.
When Monica Goodling's name erupted into the news last week in the attorney scandal, the mainstream press suddenly realized that Pat Robertson's Regent University exists -- and that it's got a big footprint in the Bush admin.
Despite Karl Rove's portrayal of the U.S. Attorney scandal as something for Congress to "play around with," Bush officials will likely end up paying for their lying and ethical mistakes.
