{"id":2857,"date":"2007-07-26T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2017-11-10T23:05:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T05:05:55","slug":"bush-crisis-rove-subpoenaed-senators-want-gonzales-perjury-probe-contempt-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/bush-crisis-rove-subpoenaed-senators-want-gonzales-perjury-probe-contempt-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Crisis: Rove Subpoenaed, Senators Want Gonzales Perjury Probe, Contempt of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/rove.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/rove.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The Huffington Post<br \/>\nDemocrats Urge Perjury Probe of Gonzales<br \/>\nLAURIE KELLMAN and LARA JAKES JORDAN<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Senate Democrats called for a perjury investigation against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Thursday and subpoenaed top presidential aide Karl Rove in a deepening political and legal clash with the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has become apparent that the attorney general has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements,&#8221; four Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement.<\/p>\n<p>They dispatched the letter shortly before Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced the subpoena of Rove, the president&#8217;s top political strategist, in remarks on the Senate floor. The White House has claimed executive privilege to block congressional demands for documents or testimony by some current and former presidential aides. 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