FOXNews.com Identifies Republican Arlen Specter as a Democrat. FBI Director Robert Mueller Contradicts Gonzales Testimony.
Reported by Marie Therese - July 26, 2007 -
On Tuesday's edition of Special Report, Brit Hume and Jim Angle discussed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During the segment, there were several video clips correctly identifying Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania as a Republican. However, the transcript posted at FOXNews.com identifies Sen. Specter as a Democrat. Here's a screenshot. Video of the original Special Report segment below the fold. There has been breaking news from Washington that FBI Director Robert Mueller contradicts testimony given by Gonzales.
From the Houston Chronicle:
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said Thursday the government's terrorist surveillance program was the topic of a 2004 hospital room dispute between top Bush administration officials, contradicting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' sworn Senate testimony.Mueller was not in the hospital room at the time of the dramatic March 10, 2004, confrontation between then-Attorney General John Ashcroft and presidential advisers Andy Card and Gonzales, who was then serving as White House counsel. Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee he arrived shortly after they left, and spoke with the ailing Ashcroft.
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.
"It has become apparent that the attorney general has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements," four Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement.
(Thanks to G. M. for the FOXNews.com tip.)
UPDATE: July 26, 3007, 5:10 PM EDT - Post updated to make it clearer that the error occurred online not on screen. - MT
