When the General Accounting Office wanted information about Enron officials meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, Gonzales was there to say no way.

He later insulated Bush from congressional records requests and publicly defended the president's order making non-American terror suspects eligible for military tribunals. He also advised Bush to refuse to give prisoner-of-war status to suspected al Qaeda prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

After his 60-36 confirmation as the 80th U.S. attorney general in 2005, Gonzales continued his role as protector, defending the National Security Agency's wiretapping program and, more recently, taking responsibility in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, some of whom claim they were political casualties.

I wish I could listen to the interview, but alas, it isn't to be, darnit.

ION, I still hate teeth. Or sinuses. I can't tell which is the cause but I'm pretty unthrilled with both right now.

Will the paperdoll interview be available online later?

Dunno if I can actually be at my desk in 35 minutes....

Apparently everyone was still denying it yesterday.

Isn't official denial our first clue that something is true with the current administration?

Holy crap. Did we know that Greece is on fire? [link]

Did we know that Greece is on fire?

Yeah. For some reason it's not getting much coverage in the US media.

I had heard that.

Payment will be a shared assumption of MY UNIVERSITY 60% and TEACHER'S INITIALS. of 40% minus expenses. Expenses will include copying required course materials chosen by instructor, refreshments, and bulk mailings.

I'm not a lawyer, but the first sentence could be tweaked so it isn't in passive voice (which could very well be accepted in legal contracts, but wasn't by my English Lit profs in college).

NPR's covering it a lot, but I am dying for a good map and pictures (because I have been to a lot of the places on fire.) I mean, Greece is on fire every year, but this year it's REALLY BAD.

What flea said about NPR. I was startled to see it buried in the back of the paper this morning, because it was all over the radio this weekend.