Gunfight at the Not-OK Corrall

After Nixon and Watergate, we thought it could never happen again. Well, guess what - it's happening again, only this time it's much, much worse. And this bunch will not go gentle into that good night.

Democrats Demand Perjury Inquiry for Gonzales - New York Times

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats called for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied under oath and subpoenaed top presidential aide Karl Rove Thursday in a widening probe into the dismissal of federal prosecutors.

''It has become apparent that the attorney general has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements,'' four members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement.

They dispatched the letter shortly before Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced the subpoena of Rove, the president's top political strategist.

''We have now reached a point where the accumulated evidence shows that political considerations factored into the unprecedented firing of at least nine United States Attorneys last year,'' said Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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