White House Wants First Dibs

I haven't talked much about the White House's involvement with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the firing of those eight attorneys. Quick recap: 8 US attorneys were fired, which isn't so weird (with every new administration, the old attorneys are always replaced) except that since Reagan only about five have ever been let go during a president's second term. That made the Democrats suspicious, and their suspicions seemed to justified because it turns out in a few of these cases, attorneys appeared to be fired for either not prosecuting Democrats or for continuing to prosecute Republicans (or people connected to Republicans).

The popular theory is that Karl Rove was using US attorneys for political means: specifically, to keep Republicans in a permanent majority by covering up for corrupt Republicans and bringing indictment after indictment on Democrats (regardless of whether or not they were actually corrupt).

Alberto Gonzales (Mr. 2-Minutes) denies that he did anything wrong. But then again, he denied that he directly involved in the firings until one of his ex-employees testified to the exact opposite. So now Congress wants Gonzales to talk to them, and even though he was hesitant at first, Gonzales now seems eager (perhaps because he knows if more ex-and current employees testify before him, he made find it hard to come up with a believable story).

So anyway, this ordeal has reached the White House because some of the emails the House has asked for involve correspondence with Gonzales and (to everyone's surprise) the Republican National Committee. A recently as last week, the White House has said that they lost some of the emails (about 500).

So what's the news for the day on this? Apparently, the White House wants the RNC to give any emails they have pertaining to this whole mess to be sent to them first, not to Congress.

Yowza.