Incompetence Reigns in Gonzales Flap
If the Justice Department–and its leader–are to be held accountable, it should be for one thing: incompetence. The bungling of a simple proposition–U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president–could not get much worse. U.S. attorneys can be fired at any time, and while the start of the second term may be a strange time (it's more likely to be done when a president takes office in the first place), it's not totally out of the question.
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Gloria Borger, a contributing editor at U.S.News & World Report, writes the magazine's On Politics column. Borger is also the national political correspondent for CBS and a regular panelist on the PBS public affairs program, Washington Week in Review. Borger is a 1974 graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and is now a member of the university's board of trustees.