Man-oh-man, this is so disappointing.  If the consensus is that Senator Feingold “takes the Attorney General to the cleaners”, well then everyone needs to look carefully at what they next pick up from their local dry cleaning shop!  As I pointed out in an earlier comment (at: http://tinyurl.com/cdnz5) Feingold let Gonzales escape from his most pertinent direct question during the confirmation hearing last year. Basically, it was Gonzalez then - on his own “initiative” and his in own judgement, who determined that he was being asked a hypothetical question, when Feingold had actually made an explicit enquiry as to warrantless wiretapping of conversations. All Feingold needed to do yesterday in follow-up was simply to ask one question. Why it is that Gonzalez (as the then Attorney General designate) now concludes that he should not be prosecuted for lying to the Senate Committee ...