I agree with “rich,” commenting on TPMmuckraker: firing San Diego U.S. Attorney Carole Lam just as she was bringing a major national-security corruption case puts us in Saturday Night Massacre territory. I’m glad to see that Chuck Schumer, for one, isn’t going to take this lying down, but the mainstream press has been remarkably passive. Someone should remind Gonzales and McNulty that the statute of limitations on obstruction-of-justice charges will not have run out by 2009.
My sense is that Rove, Cheney, and their sock-puppet have yet to adjust to a situation in which their actions are subject to Congressional oversight.