You've got to wake up early to make John Ashcroft look sympathetic

But Alberto "Luca Brasi" Gonzales and his thug apprentice Andy Card managed to do so.

James Comey's testimony is so explosive that in a sane country, the House of Representatives would be introducing Articles of Impeachment today. But alas, we live in the United States in 2007, where more people care about Paris Hilton in jail than they do about the President of the United States deciding that he don't need no es-teenking laws, if he wants to eavesdrop on everyone he'll do it.

Glenn Greenwald has the definitive commentary.