NPR: Gonzales Wanted Fallback Gig for Sampson

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Apparently Alberto Gonzales thought this whole thing would just blow over.

NPR has learned that the Attorney General’s chief of staff [Kyle Sampson] resigned from his position this week, the Justice Department took steps to establish him as an attorney elsewhere in the building….he only resigned from the department on Tuesday, when the scandal surrounding eight fired U.S. Attorneys continued to grow.

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