An e-mail blast just out from The Nation:

Dear EmailNation Subscriber,
Yesterday, a dozen high-ranking retired military officers took the rare step of signing a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing “deep concern” over the nomination of White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general.
They understand, as Robert Scheer writes in his weekly column at TheNation.com, that what’s at stake with the nomination is whether Congress wants to absolve Gonzales of his attempt to have the President subvert US law in order to whitewash barbaric practices performed by US interrogators in the name of national security.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050110&s=scheer0104
Gonzales ignored the objections of State Department and military lawyers to strongly endorse the determination of Justice Department lawyers that neither the Geneva Convention nor corresponding US laws on prisoner protections should be applied in the “war on terror.”
Gonzales’s Senate hearings begin this Thursday. Take a minute to send a letter to Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, the co-chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee who will be leading the hearings asking them to make sure the nominee receives a thorough vetting. http://capwiz.com/thenation/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=6754881