UPDATE: MSNBC has breaking news that 4 Democrats have written to Solicitor General Paul Clement (bypassing Gonzales due to obvious conflicts) calling for a Special Prosecutor:
Senate Democrats called for a special counsel Thursday to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales perjured himself regarding dissent over President Bush's domestic surveillance program.
"We ask that you immediately appoint an independent special counsel from outside the Department of Justice to determine whether Attorney General Gonzales may have misled Congress or perjured himself in testimony before Congress," four Democratic senators wrote in a letter Wednesday....
"It has become apparent that the Attorney General has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements" to the Judiciary Committee, they added.
h/t to internationaljock in the comments
Yahoo has more here
Wow! Gonzales' testimony is clearly blowing up in his face. As you certainly know by now, Gonzales testified that there was no dissent at a 2004 briefing with congressional leaders about the "Terrorist Surveillance Program"; but rather, the dissent was about "other intelligence activities. The lie was blatant and obvious from the start, and Senators gave Gonzo several opportunities to change his statement. Right after the testimony, Rockefeller and Jane Harmon noted there was plenty of dissent at the meeting and that
the activities in question were part of the NSA program.
"As far as I'm concerned, there was only one" program, Rockefeller said.
Well, Chuck Schumer was just on CNN saying that a perjury investigation should "start today."
This comes after the AP reported last night
that a four-page memo sent by then-National Intelligence Director John Negroponte in May 2006 confirms that a March 2004 White House intelligence briefing for top congressional leaders was on "the Terrorist Surveillance Program."
Throw on top that the news from the WP that
[Patrick] Leahy (D-Vt.) told reporters he is giving Gonzales until late next week to revise his testimony about the surveillance program or he will ask Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine to conduct a perjury inquiry: "I'll ask the inspector general to determine who's telling the truth."
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said yesterday that Gonzales "stands by his testimony," and that "the disagreement . . . was not about the particular intelligence activity that has been publicly described by the president. It was about other highly classified intelligence activities."
And I thought for sure this guy would never go down. He's digging a deep hole, and I don't think he's coming out.