Murray Waas in his new article trying to add the molehill, and again uses the same lefty logic that tells us that the current rage - again on a far lesser scale than previously - is somehow a crime. Sorry no dice.

“Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration’s warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the investigation, according to government records and interviews.

Bush personally intervened to sideline the Justice Department probe in April 2006 by taking the unusual step of denying investigators the security clearances necessary for their work.

It is unclear whether the president knew at the time of his decision that the Justice inquiry — to be conducted by the department’s internal ethics watchdog, the Office of Professional Responsibility — would almost certainly examine the conduct of his attorney general.

Sources familiar with the halted inquiry said that if the probe had been allowed to continue, it would have examined Gonzales’s role in authorizing the eavesdropping program while he was White House counsel, as well as his subsequent oversight of the program as attorney general.

Both the White House and Gonzales declined comment on two issues — whether Gonzales informed Bush that his own conduct was about to be scrutinized, and whether he urged the president to close down the investigation, which had been requested by Democratic members of Congress.”

You can read the rest if you can stand it. As usual Waas uses “sources” that are anonymous and quite frankly unbelivable. But as I covered last year the reason the investigators didn’t receive clearances. It had nothing to do with coverups, but because - as we found out with the Plame investigation - “Lawyers close to the investigation” can’t be trusted with classified material.