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Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...

The Firedoglake blog has been exceptional at tracking and analyzing every tantalizing detail of the PlameGate investigation. Now, they've caught Kay Bailey Hutchinson's hypocrisy in pooh-poohing perjury:

Kay Bailey Hutchinson, the new poster girl for "laws only apply when they are convenient for the GOP," said on today's Meet the Press:
I certainly hope 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 so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation were not a waste of time and dollars.

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Kay, your Petard. Petard, Kay. In your own words, all the way back on Feb. 12, 1999:

Lying is a moral wrong. Perjury is a lie told under oath that is legally wrong....Willful, corrupt, and false sworn testimony before a Federal grand jury is a separate and distinct crime under applicable law and is material and perjurious if it is 'capable' of influencing the grand jury in any matter before it, including any collateral matters that it may consider. See, Title 18, Section 1623, U.S. Code, and Federal court cases interpreting that Section.

The President's testimony before the Federal grand jury was fully capable of influencing the grand jury's investigation and was clearly perjurious.

Rattler here. Oh man, Kay is soooo busted. It just proves it all again: It's OK, if You're a Republican!


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