I scanned the current diaries and didn't see this posted yet, so I thought I'd throw it out there. If this has already been covered, let me know and I'll delete this diary.
Article in the New York Times
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor on Monday to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other officials in connection with the firings of nine of United States attorneys in 2006.
Apparently this follows on the heels of a scathing, 392-page report that criticizes the way in which nine US attorneys were fired:
"The report makes plain that, at a minimum, the process by which nine U.S. attorneys were removed in 2006 was haphazard, arbitrary and unprofessional, and the way in which the Justice Department handled those removals and the resulting public controversy was profoundly lacking," Mr. Mukasey said in a statement. The report called for further investigation to determine whether prosecutable offenses were committed either in the firings or in subsequent testimony about them.
Mukasey named Nora Dannehy, acting US Attorney from Connecticut, to handle the case.
There's more:
The report’s lead authors — Glenn A. Fine, the department’s inspector general, and H. Marshall Jarrett, the counsel for the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility — wrote that their investigation remains incomplete because of the refusal of certain key witnesses to be interviewed, including Karl Rove, the president’s former chief political adviser; Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel; Monica Goodling, the department’s former White House liaison; Senator Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico; and Mr. Domenici’s chief of staff, Steven Bell.
Could this be the beginning of an effort to hold the Bush crime syndicate accountable for corrupting the federal government in such a way that the old municipal machines of Tammany Hall and Richard J. Daley seem tame by comparison? One could only hope. I guess it's safe to assume this investigation will last beyond the election and possibly into the next administration?