Gonzales: Like Ashcroft, Only Spicier

President Bush's taps White House Counsel Al Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft.

His sharp intellect and sound judgment have helped shape our policies in the war on terror -- policies designed to protect the security of all Americans, while protecting the rights of all Americans. As the top legal official on the White House staff, he has led a superb team of lawyers and has upheld the highest standards of government ethics.

Well...except for that torture problem we had a little while back there.

Gonzales argued for the President to uphold his exclusion of Geneva Convention provisions to the Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees who, he concluded, would still be treated "humanely and, to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessarity, in a manner consistst with the principles" of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war.

I'm totally looking forward to my rights being protected to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessarity. Will we provided with orange jumpsuits, or should I come with?