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To: churchillbuff
When Clinton committed perjury, I thought it was a very big deal.

That's because Clinton's perjury was a deliberate lie to prevent the prosecutor from finding the truth. Here you have the potential for perjury charges to be brought because someone could not remember the precise details of a telephone conversation from a few years before, the subject of which was something else entirely, and which was subsequently corrected in later testimony. There's a big difference there.

29 posted on 10/24/2005 1:26:29 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls

Perjury requires a showing of intent to deceive. Not remembering is not enough.


33 posted on 10/24/2005 1:27:30 PM PDT by tomahawk
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