[DB]

She publicly stated that she lied on her application back in 2002 before she was elected.

So you are incorrect.

[beezdotcom]

So you are incorrect.

She told the PARTY that she had lied. She didn't necessarily resolve the matter with the government. The analogy would be like discovering that some Southwestern gubernatorial candidate told the Democrats "hey, I lied about my citizenship status" and the Dems saying "well, we won't tell if you don't", but not proceeding to first get his citizenship resolved with the gov't.

Of course, the issue here is that the situation is now analogous to a rival Dem saying "well, _I_ want to increase my power, so after previously saying 'don't worry', NOW I'm going to rat you out..."