Paul Kiel March 27, 2007, 4:39 PM

The Chicago Tribune has video of today’s press conference — in it, you can see that after the third question about the U.S. attorney firings, Gonzales decided he didn’t want any more and simply left. No one got to ask him why his chief of staff thought Patrick Fitzgerald was a mediocre prosecutor. From The Tribune:

Gen. Alberto Gonzales today cut short a press conference about Internet safety, leaving the room at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago when reporters questioned him about the firings of U.S. attorneys.

The questioning was to have lasted about 15 minutes, but it ended after less than three.

Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorneys