Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison yesterday on Meet the Press:
Ms. Hutchison said she hoped “that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn’t indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.”
Ms. Hutchison in 1999 during the Clinton impeachment:
[S]omething needs to be said that is a clear message that our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray. And I think it is most important that we make that statement and that it be on the record for history.
I very much worry that with the evidence that we have seen that grand juries across America are going to start asking questions about what is obstruction of justice, what is perjury. And I don’t want there to be any lessening of the standard. Because our system of criminal justice depends on people telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is the lynch pin of our criminal justice system and I don’t want it to be faded in any way.
Apparently it's only perjury if it's the other party in power.
3 comments:
Would anyone expect any different from a republican from Texas. they have a different concept of ethics than the rest of us!
I saw this bit of Republican hypocrisy and wanted to throw a chair at my tv. But since I'm not a really violent person, I thought better of it, and, instead, stuck pins into my George W. Bush voodoo doll.
I'd agree with you there TW. I think we're getting a taste of what it must have felt like to be around during Watergate.
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