The delays, which postponed key approvals in the case until after the election, raise new questions about whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales or other officials may have weighed political issues in some investigations. The Arizona U.S. attorney then overseeing the case, Paul Charlton, was told he was being fired in December, one of eight federal prosecutors dismissed in the past year.

Some more napalm for the Gonzo effigy, but there is a much larger problem here. Gonzo, as demonstrated at last weeks hearing, pretty much doesn't wipe his own ass without a green light from the oval office. This mess isn't going to end with him.