Earl Croasmun -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 >>>> *YOU* keep forgetting about lying under oath about anything is a
 >>>> crime, it's called perjury.

 RS>>> So why isn't Libby in jail?

 ->> Why isn't Bill Clinton in jail?

 EC> He cannot answer that honestly.

Exactly. He fell back on the "Clinton was acquitted" canard.

 EC>  He would have to go back to all his
 EC> Clinton defenses, and have them reexamined in light of his opinions on
 EC> the Libby conviction.  Such as his belief that the perjury in the Paula
 EC> Jones testimony was no big deal, since the Jones civil suit was settled
 EC> out of court.  Libby lied about something that never WENT to court
 EC> itself.

 EC> Clinton had a prosecutor who was willing to let the charges go in return
 EC> for an admission, paying a fine, and handing over his law license.
 EC> Libby had a prosecutor who insisted on jail time, but who in the end
 EC> didn't get it.

And if it makes people like Sauer get wrapped around the axle it can't be a
bad thing.

Ed

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