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"Harry Hope" |
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25 Oct 2005 03:03:13 PM |
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What's a Little Lying Between Friends? |
From The Washington Post, 10/25/05:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/10/25/BL2005102500520.html
What's a Little Lying Between Friends?
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 25, 2005; 11:18 AM
"Some perjury technicality"?
Did Kay Bailey Hutchison really say that?
She must have.
It was on "Meet the Press."
Is this the Republican strategy for dealing with any CIA leak
indictments?
Saying no real crimes were committed, just a teensy weensy bit of
perjury?
Turning Patrick Fitzgerald into Ken Starr?
I hasten to add that I have no idea whether anyone will be indicted.
I've never met Pat Fitzgerald, and I had problems with the way he
threatened reporters with jail, but as the U.S. attorney in Chicago
who went after some Daley cronies, he has a sterling reputation.
It is true that prosecutors who can't prove the original crime often
wind up bringing perjury and obstruction charges.
But lying to investigators, or to a federal grand jury, strikes at the
heart of the law-enforcement process.
This happens to be the message that GOPers pounded over and over again
when Clinton dissembled over Monica, so surely they take it seriously.
Or is that only when a Democrat is president?
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Of course it is. Ask any rightard.
Harry
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25 Oct 2005 04:44:12 PM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:er3tl1t245dtaauj6b6o02dfdvnj9b278f@4ax.com...
From The Washington Post, 10/25/05:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/10/25/BL2005102500520
..html
What's a Little Lying Between Friends?
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 25, 2005; 11:18 AM
"Some perjury technicality"?
Did Kay Bailey Hutchison really say that?
She must have.
It was on "Meet the Press."
Is this the Republican strategy for dealing with any CIA leak
indictments?
Saying no real crimes were committed, just a teensy weensy bit of
perjury?
Turning Patrick Fitzgerald into Ken Starr?
I hasten to add that I have no idea whether anyone will be indicted.
I've never met Pat Fitzgerald, and I had problems with the way he
threatened reporters with jail, but as the U.S. attorney in Chicago
who went after some Daley cronies, he has a sterling reputation.
It is true that prosecutors who can't prove the original crime often
wind up bringing perjury and obstruction charges.
But lying to investigators, or to a federal grand jury, strikes at the
heart of the law-enforcement process.
This happens to be the message that GOPers pounded over and over again
when Clinton dissembled over Monica, so surely they take it seriously.
Or is that only when a Democrat is president?
_______________________________________________________
Of course it is. Ask any rightard.
Harry
The republican are amazing when it comes to exposing their own hypocracy.
They do it all the time, from their false claims to christianity to this
latest venture into unimpaired hypocracy by Kay H. Do they think they are
fooling anyone? How can they do this without being seen as nothing more
than foolish clowns. Condi Rice has it down pat. But Cheney, Mr Five
Deferments, "take the fight to the enemy" is the king of all GOP hyporacy.
From him, it all stems.
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