CALL ME SNAKE

NPR reporter Ari Shapiro has a helpful suggestion for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: He could serve Bush better by keeping some distance from his boss. It’s a nice tip, yet it flies in the face of Gonzales’ longstanding role as Bush’s henchman or, as the Washington Post put it: “Bush’s enabler.” Gonzales was the in-house counsel to Bush both in Texas, when Bush was governor, and in the White House before taking his current job. He has endeavored to redefine torture to suit the administration’s purposes and handled other dirty work as needed. Maybe Shapiro’s advice was on the mark, but it’s not going to change business as usual in the Department of Justice which, under Gonzales’ helm, has become a Travesty of Justice.