[Kryptonite]

You don't get it. In order for a perjury charge to stick, the false information must be material. You can't just throw a bunch of alleged crimes against a wall and expect me to see that any of them will stick.

A witness in a murder case can deliberately lie about the color of his socks if it has nothing to do without the murder, and not have to worry about perjury charges.

[drjimmy]

You don't get it. In order for a perjury charge to stick, the false information must be material. You can't just throw a bunch of alleged crimes against a wall and expect me to see that any of them will stick. A witness in a murder case can deliberately lie about the color of his socks if it has nothing to do without the murder, and not have to worry about perjury charges.

Instead of talking about socks in a murder case, why don't you use the specific issues in this case? As I already noted, Fitzgerald was given the "authority to investigate and prosecute violations of any federal criminal laws related to the underlying alleged unauthorized disclosure, as well as federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, your investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses." See the part that says "as well as"? Please explain to me how answers given in reponse to questions about revealing the identity of Wilson's wife are not material to Fitzgerald's investigation, since that was the point of the investigation.