> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > > But what about James Clapper? Shouldn't he be put on trial for perjury? > > When someone lies to congress, that someone has lied to the American > > people. Why isn't the Justice Department aggressively pursuing James > > Clapper? I just don't get it! > > Good point. Is addressing Congress the same as testifying in court? > At the very least he should lose his job, for symbolic reasons if > nothing else.
Not so long ago, lying to Congress about a matter of much less public consequence was enough to get a sitting president impeached. It should certainly be enough to qualify as a career terminating experience for anyone else in government. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
