would "lying about a conversation" (or forgetting it) be even less of one?
That's all that Scooter Libby's charged with.
2007-01-24 06:34:40 · 5 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
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2007-01-24 06:44:13 · update #1
No one answered my other question, so it's gone!
2007-01-24 08:43:10 · update #2
People seem to be missing the main point here. This isn't about sex but about LYING. It is wrong to lie. It is illegal to lie under oath. Clinton looked the American people in the eyes and LIED. I don't care who he had sex with, I care about the fact that he blatantly lied under oath. If it comes out that Libby has done the same, then he should be punished just as harshly as Clinton (which, by the way, was not at all).
2007-01-24 06:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You have to remember that the Clintons pulled that deal too. Billybob has been paid $12 million for his memoirs and Hillary is getting $4 million for hers, yet neither of these people could remember a thing that they said or did when they were in front of the Grand Jury investigating Whitewater. For that matter, Hillary couldn't remember that she had the files (conveniently) stored in the White House basement until they were found after the two of them vacated.
2007-01-24 14:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
why is sex a bigger deal? i do not care who the president sleeps with if he does a good job. if scooter did lie about his conversation, he was obstructing a federal investigation that wasn't about sex, it was about identifying a secret agent and possibly compromising her contacts.
that's why it's a bigger deal. it doesn't matter if valerie plame wasn't undercover at the time, she had been and now anyone who might have been watching her movements has a good idea of who was talking to her.
and it would probably scare the bejesus out of all of our security folks who now realize that the administration is willing to sacrifice them to the media. her husband was writing something he thought needed to be said, the government threatened his wife because they wanted him to be quiet. stand up job there cowboys.
2007-01-24 14:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by uncle osbert 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
lying about an affair you had with an intern...to me isnt that big of a deal.
lying about leaking the identity of an american intelligence agent...to me constitutes a big deal.
but then again i guess it depends on where your moral compass points.
also, i'm not convinced libby is the main culprit here, he may be a scapegoat for someone else higher up.
2007-01-24 14:44:07 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. O 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Excuse me, but didn't Bob Woodward admit a YEAR AGO that HE was the leaker!!!!!!
2007-01-24 14:39:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋