Grilled nominee with a side of mashed, please

Confirmation hearings begin today for White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez, nominated to the post of Attorney General. You can expect there to be some serious grilling, although not the kind that Gonzalez himself would advocate for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. In other words no one will say: "Fire up the barbecue, we got an Attorney General nominee to interrogate."

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