Gonzales “Clarifies,” Leahy Groans

Hot off the presses: Alberto Gonzales clarifies his controversial July 26 testimony. Read the clarification here. Amazingly, Gonzales doesn’t think he misled Congress on National Security Letter slip-ups. Nor did he know anything about a briefing for the Peace Corps on GOP electoral priorities. In fact, Alberto Gonzales is a paragon of truth and candor, at least in his own eyes.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) just issued a curt reply to Gonzales’s clarification:

“It is a deeply regrettable that it takes so much work and effort for this Attorney General to try to justify answers that appear to remain far short of the full truth the American people should expect from the Nation’s top law enforcement officer. Sadly, this is becoming a familiar exercise. Testifying with full candor under oath would be so much easier and better.”