It's been a long and tiring road for the eight US attorneys fired last year for political reasons.  Alberto Gonzales announcing his resignation yesterday, news outlets across the country called up the former prosecutors at the center of the scandal to find out what they were thinking.  

Inside you'll find a sampling of their comments. Needless to say, they don't go easy on the soon-to-be Former Attorney General.

The media is abuzz today about the announcement that the Justice Department is launching an internal investigation into whether or not Monica Goodling, Gonzales' former White House liason who resigned in April, illegally took partisan affiliation into account when hiring nonpolitical career federal prosecutors.

Additionally, statements released by some of the fired US attorneys raise new questions about how their dismissal was handled.  From the Washington Post:

Elston is denying this, of course.  But that's not the end of it: