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None of the networks assigned a reporter to cover Tuesday's testimony by the Attorney General to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now ABC and NBC play catch up as four Democratic members of that panel cry perjury against Alberto Gonzales. They wrote a formal letter to his own Justice Department seeking the appointment of a special counsel to investigate him. "It has been a long hot summer for Gonzales," NBC's Chip Reid understated. Specifically, ABC's Jake Tapper told us, when Gonzales testified that "there were no serious disagreements within the Bush Administration" about the National Security Agency's wiretaps of citizens without a warrant, he was flatly contradicted by Robert Mueller, the Director of the FBI. Gonzales' explanation, Tapper explained, was that, yes, there was indeed a dispute--but it was "about different classified programs." ABC's George Stephanopoulos (no link) put it delicately when he summarized: "The Attorney General often parses."
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