Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo reminds us about the big picture:
But let’s not get distracted by Alberto Gonzales. He’s just a cog. In almost every case, what we’re talking about here is Gonzales’s willingness to take orders from the White House — most importantly from Karl Rove and President Bush — on firing US [...]

From TPM Muckraker:
Gonzales could not recall details about his conversation with Karl Rove about voter fraud, although he testified that he did have such a conversation. He said that it covered three jurisdictions — New Mexico, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. He could not recall when or where or how it had occurred, only that it was [...]

The House Judiciary Committee, which was set to vote on immunity for Monica Goodling this morning, has delayed the vote until next week, according to TPM Muckraker. Here’s the statement from Committee Chair John Conyers:
“At the request of our Ranking Minority Member, Lamar Smith, I have announced a one-week delay in the Committee vote to [...]

According to TPM Muckraker, the House Judiciary Committee will consider granting immunity to Monica Goodling in exchange for her testimony. Goodling, if you recall, was present during Domenici’s call to Iglesias. It was also her written note listing reasons for firing Iglesias that said: “Domenici says he doesn’t move cases.”
Goodling, who has since resigned from [...]

Via TPM comes the news at the Politico:
The Senate just adopted a resolution (S. Res. 153) stating that “for matters before the Select Committee on Ethics involving the preliminary inquiry arising in connection with alleged communications by persons within the committee’s jurisdiction with and concerning David C. Iglesias, then United States Attorney for the District [...]

Via Carpetbagger Report comes

That’s according to the Albuquerque Journal (subs. required):
At some point after the election last Nov. 6, Domenici called Bush’s senior political adviser, Karl Rove, and told him he wanted Iglesias out and asked Rove to take his request directly to the president.
Domenici and Bush subsequently had a telephone conversation about the issue.
The conversation between Bush [...]

Via TPM comes this post over at Muckraker:
Here’s another new document from the ones released today. And it’s a good one.
They are two pages of handwritten notes, apparently taken by Monica Goodling — the now former Justice Department official who’s pled the Fifth. The notes appear to have emerged from a brainstorming session on justifications [...]

In a post that reminded me of my recent rant on “Old Media” vs. bloggers and other “amateurs,” Glenn Greenwald shows the incredible turnaround of the Washington Post editorial board:
Even more than most national journalists, The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt has been a stalwart defender of the Bush administration with regard to the U.S. attorneys [...]

The Washington Post reports today on the U.S. Attorney for Montana, Bill Mercer, who is apparently never in his Montana office:
His regular absence from the U.S. attorney’s office in Billings has caused severe friction between Mercer and U.S. District Chief Judge Donald W. Molloy, a Clinton appointee. Molloy wrote a letter to Gonzales in October [...]

Monica Goodling, an aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, announced her resignation yesterday. Goodling, who was involved in Sen. Pete Domenici’s call to then US Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias, had refused to testify before Congress, utilizing her Fifth Amendment rights.
According to the Associated Press (via TPM Muckraker):
Monica M. Goodling, the Justice Department’s liaison [...]

The Justice Department just can’t catch a break on this scandal. According to TPM Muckraker, the Office of Special Counsel is launching an investigation to see if Iglesias was wrongly fired for his Naval Reserve Duty:
When Justice Department official William Moschella was asked why the Department had fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, he told [...]