Gonzo's Exit Handcuffs White House

Dems will blitz Bush with document hunts and witness prep until election 2008, Robert Bork argues in the National Review, by demanding a special prosecutor along with the next attorney general. "A special prosecutor with unlimited funds, a soon-developed addiction to publicity, and a broad mandate" will go after an indictment – theater that will only distract the US at “a time of national insecurity.”

Patrick Fitzgerald’s “disgraceful performance” stands out, Bork argues: He prosecuted Scooter Libby although he knew “no crime had been committed… The upshot was press and public suspicion of the president and of Karl Rove for months on end.” A new prosecutor will focus on the firing of US attorneys, Gonzales’ alleged perjury and other "irrelevant questions" while jihadists threaten America. (More Alberto Gonzales stories.)