Schumer: “We Need An Attorney General Who Can Tell the Truth”

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Here’s some video from this morning’s press conference, where Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) announced that they have called for a special prosecutor to investigate Alberto Gonzales’ testimony to Congress. Since, as Schumer put it, “the attorney general cannot investigate himself,” the four signed a letter to the Solicitor General Paul Clement, who is serving as the acting attorney general in matters where Gonzales is implicated. You can see that letter here.

Schumer, as usual, did not mince words where it comes to Gonzales’ credibility (“he tells the half truth, the partial truth and everything but the truth”):

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