Justice, 'tied at hip' to White House, hurts respect for law - Yahoo! News

Justice, 'tied at hip' to White House, hurts respect for law - Yahoo! News: "Daniel Metcalfe worked at the Justice Department for more than three decades - through seven presidents, Democratic and Republican, liberal and conservative. But he recently told Legal Times that Alberto Gonzales did something no other attorney general had managed during Metcalfe's long career: In just two years, Gonzales 'shattered' the department's 'strong tradition of independence' and left it 'artificially tied at the hip' to the White House."