But he added that the First Amendment right of a free press should not be absolute when it comes to national security. If the government’s probe into the NSA leak turns up criminal activity, prosecutors have an “obligation to enforce the law.”

“It can’t be the case that that right trumps over the right that Americans would like to see, the ability of the federal government to go after criminal activity,” Gonzales told ABC’s “This Week.”

Alas, he was referring to people leaking information about his criminally deranged boss, not those in said deranged persons office who leak national security information for spite to sell an optional war.

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