Gauging Gonzales

Alberto R. Gonzales will soon be gone from the Justice Department, but he won't be forgotten. Glenn A. Fine, the department's respected inspector general, has agreed to a request by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) that Fine "investigate and evaluate potential misleading, evasive or dishonest testimony" by Gonzales about, among other things, the firing of U.S. attorneys and disagreements within the Bush administration over electronic surveillance.

September 6, 2007