Looks like some Democrats may put up a fight against Gonzales after all:

During upcoming confirmation hearings for Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, senior Democrats want to screen infamous videotapes showing Iraqis being abused at Abu Ghraib prison, top sources tell the Drudge Report...The Bush White House counsel will be grilled about his role in formulating the administration's legal policies on coercive techniques in interrogations -- techniques some Democrats believe led to outright torture. Yet it's the grainy prison videos, shot by a soldier's cellphone and never before viewed by the public, that threaten to turn the New Year ugly: A video of a handcuffed prisoner beating his head against a wall; a video of a group of hooded men shown masturbating. The Pentagon and the White House hold the videos in their possession and have not authorized any public release, including to the senate...

Anyone wondering just where the buck stopped should check out Seymour Hersh's Chain of Command. Chilling.