Are the Bushites afraid they will be prosecuted?

I hope so. But even more, I hope they WILL be prosecuted for their crimes. It would do a lot to fix the United States of America, and almost as importantly, to fix our reputation in the rest of the world. Watergate didn't affect our international reputation as much as the Iraq invasion has. That was affected by the Vietnam War, which Nixon and Kissinger could argue they inherited and were trying to end, and by such bad deeds as the overthrow of Allende, which really wasn't very related to Watergate. But I digress.

Here's the story from TPMmuckraker.com:

At an oversight hearing this morning, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) grilled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the sudden departure of several U.S. Attorneys at the administration's request.