DOJ

I'd like to know more about the political appointees at the Department of Justice.  We know something already, not least of which is that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is... well, not someone we want on the Supreme Court, a job we believe he would have been nominated for. 

Then there are the poli-hirelings further down the ladder.  Like Michael Elston.

Elston, a Duke law graduate, is Paul McNulty's chief of staff.  It's impossible to find anything out about Elston that makes him sounds like a great guy.  He has been involved in the prosecutions of some of the administration's more notorious detainees, including John Walker Lindh.  He helped draft the Patriot Act and clerked for a judge ruling in Paula Jones v. William Jefferson Clinton.

Perhaps appointments to the Department of Justice at anything above Deputy Emptier of Waste Baskets should be vetted by, at the very least, Congress.