The more I think about this (and more I hear from people who’ve explained some details), the more peeved I get. If he was caught dead to rights stealing and destroying classified materials, by what rationale is the Justice Department letting him off with a “slap on the wrist” in Shannen’s words? Were his reasons more noble than those of folks who get sent to prison for years? If so, again, the media must work harder to tell us what those motives were — and so should the government. It sounds to me that Gonzales is, again, getting off to a bad start (Full disclosure: My wife is still working for DOJ and for the new AG. But my reasons for being disappointed in him have nothing to do with that).