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At a Washington press conference Tuesday, former Beatle Paul McCartney declined to opine on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "I'm not a politician," he noted.

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From left, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division Ignacia Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division Tony West and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Don Burkhalter announce that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)

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**FILE** Retired Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 6, 2007. (Associated Press)

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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard holds a news conference in Phoenix to announce that he has been informed the Obama administration will send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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**FILE** This 2003 photo obtained by the Associated Press shows a detainee bent over with his hands on the bars of a prison cell at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Billionaire R. Allen Stanford is escorted into the federal courthouse in Houston on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Mr. Stanford faces federal charges that he ran a $7 billion scheme to defraud investors with his international banking empire. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Rocky Galloway (left) and Reginald Stanley hold their twin daughters after the two men were married by the Rev. Sylvia E. Sumter (center) on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the first day that gay marriage was legal in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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FILE - In this March 20, 2009 file photo David Bossie, leader of Citizens United and producer of "Hillary: The Movie", is seen in his office in Washington. Hillary: The Movie" is returning to the Supreme Court for a limited engagement and with the chance to overhaul laws governing federal campaigns ranging from the White House to the halls of Congress. The justices were hearing arguments in the case Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, for the second time. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose and then Fairfax County Police Chief Tom Manger discuss the case during a press conference at Montgomery County Police Headquarters in Rockville on Oct. 17, 2002. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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Juan Williams (Courtesy of foxnews.com)

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D.C. Jail in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of wtopnews.com)

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** FILE ** An U.S. Chinook helicopter overflies Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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** FILE ** John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, June 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Illustration: Terrible testify.

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In this August 2009 photo provided the Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Team via The Grants Pass Daily Courier,a marijuana grow site in on Allen Creek Road is seen in Grants Pass, Ore. Josephine County has hundreds of grow sites for medical marijuana. Police raided the site in August where 160 plants found, inside and outside of the home. Police charged the grower exceeded his limit, with 24 mature plants outside and 136 inside. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistle-blower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, holds a news conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa., Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, before reporting to the federal prison. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS From left, Washington Wizards' Gilbert Arenas, Brendan Haywood, Caron Butler watch the action from the bench in the fourth quarter in an NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, in Phoenix. The Suns defeated the Wizards 121-95.

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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, filed the lawsuit to strike down the federal health-care law in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** The sun rises behind the construction site of a housing project among the haze clouding the skyline of Shenyang, China, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (Associated Press)