Monday, October 24, 2005

Senator Hutchison and Perjury

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison apparently told the folks at Meet the Press that perjury is a technicality and not a crime.

SEN. HUTCHISON: ... And secondly, 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 and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

But isn't it odd that she didn't feel that way about perjury when it concerned President Clinton. At that time, after years of investigation and millions of taxpayer dollars, Senator Hutchison voted guilty to perjury charges against the former President. At the time she argued that perjury wasn't just a criminal act, but a high crime, justifying the impeachment of a sitting President.

Perhaps someone will ask her about her flip-flop regarding perjury being a "high crime" then, but merely a "technicality" now.

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