Can You Say Special Counsel?
26 July 2007 9:54 am by Taylor Marsh
Senators Schumer, Feinstein, Feingold and Whitehouse called for a Special Counsel
this morning.
A group of Senate Democrats called Wednesday 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."We ask that you immediately appoint an independent special counsel
from outside the Department of Justice to determine whether Attorney General
Gonzales may have misled Congress or perjured himself in testimony before
Congress," four Democratic senators wrote in a letter Wednesday, according
to a draft obtained by The Associated Press."It has become apparent that the Attorney General has provided at a
minimum half-truths and misleading statements" to the Judiciary Committee,
they added."We do not make this request lightly." wrote Sens. Charles E. Schumer
of New York, Dianne Feinstein of California, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island in a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement.A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Colo., said he supports
the request. … ..
The letter to Solicitor
General Paul Clement lays it out.
