Breaking: Leading Senate Democrats want Special Prosecutor to investigate Gonzales for perjury
AP reports that four Democratic Senators from the Judiciary Committee, including the Chair, Patrick Leahy, want a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Attorney General:
Senate Democrats called Thursday for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales perjured himself regarding the firings of U.S. attorneys and administration dissent over President Bush's domestic surveillance program.
"It has become apparent that the attorney general has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements," four members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter to Solictor (sic) General Paul Clement.
Nancy Pelosi embarrassed?
appears that some members of Congress may have motivations that there be not-too-seaching an inquiry into this business.
The real significance
of AG Gonzales' testimony yesterday was his revelation of here-to-fore undisclosed "intelligence" activities carried on in the name of the President. This is the nub of the matter: whether these activities were legal or criminal. Shades of the Nixon White House.
Gonzales on the horns of a dilemma
he can't tell what he knows, because that will hang him. He can't claim ignorance, because that is obstruction of justice.
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Congress Slow Roasts AG Scapegoat
What's got my attention isn't just the AG perjury issues, but the broader Congressional FISA oversight: They appear to have known about, or should have known about, many illegal things since 2001: Many FISA briefings given to DNC and GOP Members of Congress. AG may have lied, but Congress looks complicit with malfeasance, both parties.