November 13, 2005
Today's Must Read
In December's Commentary Magazine, Norman Podhoretz takes another whack at the "Bush Lied" meme. As an added bonus, Joseph Wilson receives a good whack as well:
But there is worse. In his press conference on the indictment against Libby, Patrick Fitzgerald insisted that lying to federal investigators is a serious crime both because it is itself against the law and because, by sending them on endless wild-goose chases, it constitutes the even more serious crime of obstruction of justice. By those standards, Wilson—who has repeatedly made false statements about every aspect of his mission to Niger, including whose idea it was to send him and what he told the CIA upon his return; who was then shown up by the Senate Intelligence Committee as having lied about the forged documents; and whose mendacity has sent the whole country into a wild-goose chase after allegations that, the more they are refuted, the more they keep being repeated—is himself an excellent candidate for criminal prosecution.
Read the whole thing. Carefully. Posted by nopundit at November 13, 2005 09:52 AM