Gonzales Urged to Correct Misstatements

Sen. Specter remains patient while Sen. Leahy willing to wait a week



Updated: 15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is advising — for now — against a perjury investigation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over his apparent misstatements about warrantless spying.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he wanted to wait at least until a briefing today by the Bush administration on classified spy programs that could help him decide whether Gonzales lied to Congress.

"Let's give him a chance," Specter said Sunday on CBS' 'Face the Nation.' "What we want to do is find out what the facts are."

Last week, four Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Solicitor General Paul Clement for the special probe of Gonzales. The request came after FBI Director Robert S. Mueller appeared to contradict Gonzales' statements about internal administration dissent over the president's secretive wiretapping program.

Gonzales told that committee the program was not at issue when then-White House counsel Gonzales made a dramatic visit to Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital room in 2004. Mueller, before the House Judiciary Committee, said it was.

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to correct 'mistatements'.

:banghead:

let him revise his statement which will only compound his lying, and give more cause for charges to be brought

to see if Gonzales's lies match the lies coming out of the Whote House. If they do, then all is hunkey-dorey.


We've played this game before. Bushbots reinforce each other's stories. We don't want a briefing, we want the DOCUMENTS and the EVIDENCE.

Bullshit doesn't fly anymore.

He must be if he is critcizing Fredo!

the guy is fucking guilty and is lying!!! what don't these senators get? and Specter what a ass kisser he is.

Each time this POS came before Congress he did the verbal equivalent of showing the committee his ass. He has lied so badly for so long, his credibility is nonexistent. Impeach him and throw him in jail already. His chances to come clean were used up years ago.

Piss on all this "misstated" and "misspoke"... he's a fucking LIAR.. our top law enforcement officer IS A FUCKING LIAR. There, I feel better now...

Magic Bullet Arlen is just waiting for his orders from the bunker.