Sen. Whitehouse, Democrats Demand Perjury Inquiry for Gonzales
UPDATE Apparantly, the Bush administration thinks Americans are stupid as chief flak Tony Snow vehemently defended Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and refused to acknowledge the false testimony he gave to Congress.
“He has testified truthfully and tried to be very accurate,” the chief White House spokesman, Tony Snow, said of Mr. Gonzales’s testimony this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Snow said repeatedly that Mr. Gonzales had not been contradicted by Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, as has been widely reported, on whether there were serious disagreements within the Bush administration on its secret surveillance program.
Here’s some video from yesterday on Sen. Whitehouse’s call for a special counsel perjury investigation.
WASHINGTON –Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is among a group of Senate Democrats seeking an investigation into whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury.Whitehouse has signed a letter asking for a special counsel to look into whether Gonzalez perjured himself regarding the firings of U.S. attorneys and administration dissent over President Bush’s domestic surveillance program.The three other Democrats who authored the letter are Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Charles Schumer of New York and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.A draft copy of the letter was obtained by The Associated Press shortly before a news conference planned by the senators. They say the attorney general should be held — quote — to the “highest ethical standards.”more