New report against U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced a new firestorm sparked by a report he may have misled lawmakers in 2005 about civil liberty violations by the FBI. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, responded by promising that Gonzales would face tough questions about this and other matters at a hearing planned by his panel later this month. And Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who chairs a House Judiciary subcommittee, renewed calls for Gonzales to resign and called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to determine if he had misled Congress, a serious crime. But President George W. Bush brushed off the flap about his longtime friend, who earlier served as White House counsel.