And there goes the Wicked Witch of the South....

Only this Admin-dumb-stration could come up with a stunt as weird as this:

Gonzales Resigning, Sources Say

Think of it as one last swift kick at the Constitution on the man's way out the door: he finally decides to resign, but declares the resignation to be classified.

This is right up there with something I saw in this week's News of the Weird- a reference to this piece from the July 7 L.A. Times, reporting on a rare appeals court victory for the Bushies which held that potential victims of illegal wiretapping had no standing to challenge it.

That is not weird, in and of itself. But this is:

Judges Alice M. Batchelder and Julia Smith Gibbons of the 6th Circuit, both Republican appointees, said no single plaintiff could prove that he or she had been wiretapped and had therefore suffered harm — the legal standing necessary to go to court....

The only way the plaintiffs could find out whether they had been the targets of wiretapping, he said, was if they obtained information about the surveillance program — in violation of the "state secrets" privilege. (Established in 1953, the privilege bars the disclosure of information in court proceedings when "there is a reasonable danger that compulsion of the evidence will expose military matters which, in the interest of national security, should not be divulged.")

Batchelder wrote: "The plaintiffs do not — and because of the state secrets doctrine cannot — produce any evidence that any of their communications have ever been intercepted by the NSA, under the TSP, without warrants." Rather, she said, the plaintiffs had asserted "a mere belief" that their overseas contacts were the types of people being targeted by the NSA.

The ruling presents "a Catch-22," said Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and one of the plaintiffs.

Up next, Bush introduces our new Attorney General: Major Major M. Major.