By Kathy Gill
from About.com

While listening to the Randi Rhodes Show on Air America this afternoon, Author Greg Palast, who wrote “Armed Madhouse” has told Randi that Griffin is resigning and there’s going to be big trouble. Seems a friend of Palast’s, who owns the website WhiteHouse.com received emails from Griffin, who mistyped the email address to Palast’s friend, instead of Whitehouse.gov! Last evening in New York, Palast met with John Conyers and gave him over 500 emails from Griffin, some TO Karl Rove, regarding the “caging” practices which Monica Goodling alluded to during her testimony. Conyers now has the emails and I can hear indictments and subpoenas being handed out in 3…2…1… - JS

The Bush Administration test-case in an usurpation of power play is no more, according to the Arkansas Blog, with the resignation of United States Attorney Tim Griffin.

President Bush appointed Griffin, 34, as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas after the Administration had language inserted in the Patriot Act Reauthorization Bill that eliminated Senatorial confirmation of replacement US Attorneys. Griffin had served as Karl Rove’s “director of opposition research,” and news reports suggest Rove and then White House Counsel Harriet Miers wanted Griffin in Arkansas.

In other news at the beleaguered Department of Justice, the Washington Post reports that the investigation into US Attorneys firings has expanded to include “hiring practices at the sprawling department, including the troubled Civil Rights Division and programs for beginning lawyers.”

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has insisted that he is “fully committed to ensuring that with respect to every position we have a Senate-confirmed, presidentially appointed U.S. attorney.”

However, as I pointed out last week, Griffin was appointed five months ago. Under “normal” rules of appointment, his term would have expired mid-April. Griffin publicly said he would resign rather than go through Senate confirmation.

The Arkansas Times had called for Griffin to resign.

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