That the advice from Andrew Sullivan after his review of Attorney General Alberto Gonzale’s testimony before Congress this week. I earlier gave my take on Gonzales’s shredding of our Constitution and the Great Writ. It’s starting to feel like the last act of The Crucible. When they come for you, will anyone be there to care?

Senator Leahy rightly dragged the legal lickspittle Gonzales over the coals. The rage in Leahy’s voice is completely justified: the idea that the U.S. sent a terror suspect to Syria for interrogation, and didn’t expect him to be tortured, is preposterous. Gonzales, Bush and Ashcroft were comfortable with that because they are comfortable with torture. There’s not a freedom Gonzales wouldn’t undermine, not a right he wouldn’t qualify, if his political patrons asked him to.

An attroney must provide a rightous defense for their client. The question becomes: who does Gonzales consider to be his client?

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