Minneapolis US Attorney's office collapses under unqualified appointment

Wow. If you want to get a real sense of the type of appointments Gonzales knew nothing about but signed off on, take a brief minute to read these two posts over at TPM.

Apparently, in Minneapolis, the top four officials in the office requested voluntary demotion to get away from the new appointment, a 34 year old, Federalist Society member.

Also: The WaPo has an article on hundreds of pages the Justice Department is refusing to release related to the firings. These "holdbacks" have only been discovered by the Congress in the last two weeks.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like they contain conversations and deliberations regarding US Attorneys who were not fired. The Justice Department is holding them back on a claim of privacy for the individuals involved, but I would guess there's something there, because Dems have reviewed these documents and want them public.