Specter’s Response to Gonzales…
…came during this morning’s Judiciary Committee hearings (initial hearing coverage from TPM Muckraker here). Specter’s opinion? Gonzo skirted the edge of perjury but didn’t cross it. He still thinks Gonzo should go. I hope he isn’t holding his breath.
But “just because it’s not perjury,” Specter said, “doesn’t mean it’s the way that the highest ranking legal officer in the United States ought to respond to a Senate inquiry.” Specter went on to say that he thought that the conclusion of the committee’s investigation of the U.S. attorney firings would be to “end the tenure of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.” When that conclusion will come, however, no one knows.