Somewhat lost in all the last-minute pre-recess wrangling in the House and Senate this weekend was a letter Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sent to Congress "clarifying" his July 24 testimony.

In his testimony on that date, Gonzales told Senators that he was not aware of any instances in which senior Justice Department officials had participated in White House political briefings of the sort that have already been deemed illegal.

It appears, unsurprisingly, that Mr. Gonzales was mistaken.

The Office of the Special Council (OSC) has drafted a report concluding that Lurita Doan, the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), the government agency responsible for service, supply and real estate contracts, violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits certain government officials from entering into partisan political activity.

In other words, she broke the law.