Monday, October 24, 2005

What Is and What Isn't a Crime

Republican mouthpiece, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson:

"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."

She's talking about the Executive Branch revealing the name of a CIA operative as a way of "getting back" at that CIA operative's husband for saying bad things about the White House, and then the same people who did the revealing getting up in front of an investigatory body and lying about what they did.

Just in case you didn't know: Revealing the name of an undercover CIA operative is treason. Doing it during a time of war usually carries the death penalty. Lying about the who/when/where/why of the treason? According to Republicans, that's just a mere "perjury technicality."

I would like to remind 50.2% of the American population: You voted for a politcal party that thinks that lying about treason committed in a political smear campaign is not a "real" crime.

p.s. Read Alec Baldwin's opinion piece on the same statement.

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