Here is a real quandary for the White House: What to do when the head of the FBI suggests that the attorney general lied to Congress. And yet, that is the conclusion that FBI Director Robert Mueller allowed in House testimony yesterday about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
When pressed on the truthfulness of Gonzales’ sworn testimony that the National Security Agency’s warrant-less wiretapping program was not discussed in his controversial 2004 nighttime visit while White House Counsel to the hospital bedside of Attorney General John Ashcroft, Mueller hemmed and hawed but eventually said that “the discussion was on a national NSA program that has been much discussed, yes.”
Others have testified that Gonzales unsuccessfully pressured the ailing Ashcroft to overrule a deputy’s decision that the secret program was illegal. For now, the White House is denying that Mueller contradicted Gonzales, but it seems likely that George W. Bush’s steadfast support for the attorney general now must withstand the possibility that his chief legal officer is a perjurer.
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