Tonight's major news story:

Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel criticized for calling parts of the Geneva Conventions on prisoner treatment "obsolete," will promise to live by anti-torture treaties if he is confirmed as attorney general, according to a statement obtained on Wednesday.

Gonzales said he was "deeply committed to the rule of law," in a statement for delivery at Senate confirmation hearings on Thursday. The hearings are likely to focus on Gonzales' role in policies that critics say gave rise to abuses such as those at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Yes, that's right - the nominee for the nation's highest law-enforcement office is expected to gain easy confirmation just by promising not to torture people. Except, of course, that's not what he's promising at all - he's just "committed to the rule of law," and his own memos and defense tomorrow show that he believes torture is easily within "the rule of law."

And he's committed to it. The only problem this administration has with sending this country and the world to hell in a handbasket is that they need bigger handbaskets.