Regarding Alberto Gonzalez from a commenter at Towleroad:

Him and Condoleeza Rice are really living up to their “house slave” reputations (FYI, my Black friends named Condoleeza a house slave, not me) I prefer to call Gonzalez a wetback with a 401K.

Lovely.

Says Debra Burlingame in another gret op-ed, this time in the NY Post.

February 6, 2006 — DO you remember Rick Rescorla? He was the Morgan Stanley security chief who persistently warned Port Authority officials before the first World Trade Center bombing that the Twin Towers were vulnerable to terrorist attack. They didn’t listen.
After six people died in the 1993 bombing, Rescorla repeatedly drilled employees on evacuation procedures. On 9/11, after the first jet slammed into Tower One at 8:46 a.m., he ignored the official order to send his workforce back to their desks in the south tower.

“Everything above where that plane hit is going to collapse,” he told a friend over the phone. “I’m getting my people the [expletive] out of here.”

The 62-year-old Vietnam veteran grabbed a bullhorn and led hundreds of people out of the building, singing “God Bless America” to keep them from losing their nerve, going back again and again for stragglers.

He’s credited with evacuating 2,700 people, but did not save himself.

Listening to members of Congress argue about the National Security Agency (NSA) terrorist-surveillance program brought Rescorla to mind. What would he think about all the dry legal arguments concerning the president’s authority for intercepting al Qaeda conversations?

I think the decorated war hero would say, “If it’ll it save my people, do it.”

Of course, the NY Times would stop to ask whether or not Al-Qaeda’s “rights” were being violated.

**UPDATED**

And well, will you look at this? Coincidence with the NY Times story? I think not.