by Jeff DavisThe resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been all over every newspaper, television network and Internet site. The son of illegal aliens, Alberto Gonzales approved torture, secret prisons, warrantless wiretaps and undermining the Right of habeas corpus. Our Third World Attorney General did everything he could to transform our judicial system into that of a Third World police state.First off, this is the second one of Bush’s inner circle to jump ship in two weeks, the first being Karl Rove. These are not White House lightweights like all those small fry that fell on their swords at the Justice Department when the U. S. Attorney-firing scandal first broke. These are major-league neocon players. Up until a few weeks ago, I would have said you’d have to pry them out of this administration with a crowbar to remove them.There was in fact no need for either of them to leave. Rove was holed up in the White House, inaccessible and surrounded with a force field of invincibility for almost seven years, and his status never changed. There was no way Congress or anyone else could have gotten to him with Gonzales in the chair at Justice. Either Rove voluntarily left, or he had some falling out with Bush or Cheney that was so serious he was forced out.Ditto Gonzales himself. Alberto lied bare-faced to Congress, everyone in the country knew it, and they did –nothing. A few Congressmen spluttered in impotent rage; Bush ignored them, and that was it. This Congress doesn’t have the backbone for impeachment and everybody knows it. The neocons may stage some kind of “national emergency” as an excuse to cancel the 2008 elections. Anything is possible with the gang of traitors in power today. This is why impeachment was so necessary, yet the new Congress of 2006 chose to do nothing.Curiously Gonzales was in fact essential in preventing any serious criminal probes or contempt of Congress charges, since contempt of Congress cases are enforced by–the U. S. Attorney General and the Justice Department. Bush needed him. So why is he gone?Why did they leave? Two possibilities.The first possibility is that Gonzales was forced out by Bush and Cheney and the neocons after being a colossal embarrassment for many months. It seems likely Gonzales’ goal may have been to block investigations for as long as possible by focusing all the attention on himself until it became “too late” to impeach Bush and Cheney.The second possibility is that the neocons are planning something that is so ghastly, so dangerous, so criminal, so vile, that even these two completely amoral men couldn’t stomach it and want to distance themselves from it, even if it means losing their immediate shielding from prosecution. That’s scary, when two consummate political criminals would rather risk prison than hang around in this administration and be associated with whatever it’s planning.