Taxpayers pay for Gonzales's lawyer

Habeas corpus skeptic Alberto Gonzales is the defendant in not just one but at least 2 cases simultaneously. In addition to being indicted alongside Dick Cheney in the prison scandal, Gonzales is also a defendant in a suit involving himself and other Justice Department officials blocking law students from Washington jobs because of their political views.

Gonzales asked the Justice Department to hire a private attorney for him at taxpayer expense. And the department has eagerly complied.

Isn't it nice to know you're paying for the former Attorney General's private lawyer?

Isn't Alberto Gonzales an attorney himself? If you were Attorney General - the nation's top lawyer - shouldn't your legal skills be grand enough to enable you to defend yourself?

Or is this an admission that Gonzales doesn't have the legal knowhow of a pile of navel lint? Hell, he doesn't even believe in habeas corpus, which we were supposed to learn about in 7th grade. How can you be a lawyer when you don't even believe in something that the Constitution guarantees in plain sight?

(Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/56078.html)