Today’s Must Read: events conspire to prove Dick Cheney a liar.

Michigan GOP Rep. Vern Ehlers says it’s time for Gonzales to go.

Flashback: Conservative commentators and Republicans strongly supported the idea of Speaker Newt Gingrich getting involved in foreign policy.

OK, so how many Republican lawmakers have called for Alberto Gonzales’ resignation? By our count, six. The roll call’s here.

Check out our latest chart — a handy comparison of the Iraq votes of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under Bush has a sterling record of protecting whites from the peril of racial discrimination.

But oddly enough, when it comes to protecting African Americans, it’s clearly not a priority.

M.J. Rosenberg “On Pelosi: Blessed Are The Peacemakers.”

Memo to CNN: As Speaker, Gingrich thrust himself into Mideast issues with trip to Israel, defied White House, bashed White House foreign policy.

As we’ve asked a number of times, what about the U.S. attorneys who weren’t fired?

Well, here’s one whose job seems secure.

Here’s a press release just out from 60 Minutes on the McCain Baghdad ‘stroll’ …

Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he misspoke in comments he made about security in Baghdad and acknowledged that heavily armed troops and helicopter gunships accompanied him when he visited a market there. McCain tells this to Scott Pelley in his first interview since the visit for a 60 MINUTES report that will include the only video camera footage of McCain’s market visit, to be broadcast Sunday, April 8 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT).

In two interviews before the Army took McCain and 60 MINUTES on the heavily guarded visit to the al-Shorja market last Sunday, the senator said security had improved in Iraq. Upon his return, he also told a news conference he had just come back from a neighborhood one could walk around in freely. The remarks made headlines and he now regrets saying them. “Of course I am going to misspeak and I’ve done it on numerous occasions and I probably will do it in the future,” says McCain. “I regret that when I divert attention to something I said from my message, but you know, that’s just life,” he tells Pelley, adding, “I’m happy, frankly, with the way I operate, otherwise it would be a lot less fun.”

He continues to maintain that the president’s surge policy has improved safety in Baghdad. “I can understand why [the Army] would provide me with that security, but I can tell you that if it had been two months ago and I’d asked to do it, they would have said, ‘Under no circumstances whatsoever.’ I view that as a sign of progress,” says McCain.

Continuing America’s military presence in Iraq has been a key position in McCain’s presidential bid. He says he knows he is out of step with the rest of the country. “I believe we can succeed and I believe that the consequences of failure are catastrophic,” he tells Pelley. “I disagree with what the majority of the American people want. Failure [in Iraq] will lead to chaos, withdrawal will lead to chaos,” McCain says.

McCain has been critical of the way the war has been executed and has severely criticized former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In the interview Sunday, he lays some of the blame on the president, as well. “I say that [Bush] is responsible and I’ll continue to say he is responsible. Should I look back in anger or should I look forward and say, ‘Lets support this new strategy, let’s support this new general and let’s give it everything we can to have it succeed,” McCain tells Pelley.

Now, I’m still curious about this Times of London report that said 21 workers from that market were abducted and executed the next day. As I noted later the same day, it’s hard to know precisely what happened here or what it means without a lot more local knowledge. But on its face it seems at least worth seeing if these two events weren’t connected. I haven’t seen any follow-up on this. Is the original Times piece accurate? If not, I’d like to know. And if it is, as I assume, I’d like to hear about just what happened and whether it was tied in any way — as retaliation, a statement, etc. — to McCain’s visit.