Justice Dept. Inquiry Focuses on Gonzales's Claims

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/washington/31gonzales.html?ex=1346212800&en=0929309d117c3580&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog disclosed Thursday that he was investigating whether sworn statements to Congress by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales were “intentionally false, misleading or inappropriate.”

The disclosure, by Glenn A. Fine, the department’s inspector general, came in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee and was the first official confirmation that Mr. Gonzales was under investigation within the executive branch over the truthfulness of his testimony. The committee’s chairman, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, had requested the inquiry this month.

[Supersedeas]

1. conclusions of the investigation to come after the next election--per script

[hootinholler]

2. Not like anyone with teeth are going to look into it...

But it's a start.

-Hoot