Let the Rule of Law Prevail (GOP now decides to rethink Rule of Law)

[papau]

"In the 1990s, "rule of law" was hot....In the 2000s, not so much."
perjury is now a "technicality".....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102400656.html?sub=AR

Let the Rule of Law Prevail

By Terry M. Neal
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 25, 2005; 6:00 AM


<snip> Republicans, who impeached and tried to remove a president who lied about his private sex life, have now decided that the whole "rule of law" thing really isn't all it's cut out to be.

<snip>Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Tex.) outlined the strategy on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, when moderator Tim Russert asked her whether White House spokesman Scott McClellan's previous denials that anyone in the administration had anything to do with the leak of covert operative Valerie Plame's name to the media lacked credibility.

"Tim, you know, I think we have to remember something here," Hutchinson admonished. "An indictment of any kind is not a guilty verdict, and I do think we have in this country the right to go to court and have due process and be innocent until proven guilty. And secondly, I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars. So they go to something that trips someone up because they said something in the first grand jury and then maybe they found new information or they forgot something and they tried to correct that in a second grand jury.

"I think we should be very careful here, especially as we are dealing with something very public and people's lives in the public arena. I do not think we should prejudge. I think it is unfair to drag people through the newspapers week after week after week, and let's just see what the charges are. Let's tone down the rhetoric and let's make sure that if there are indictments that we don't prejudge."<snip>

[billybob537]

1. ISN'T THAT SPECIAL ala Church lady

Now that the shoe that stinks is on her party it's time not to prejudge. I hope every evil thing they tried on Clinton comes home to roost on these prejudice AH's

[papau]

2. I agree :-)

:-)

[Burried News]

3. Hehyell don't everbudy know if urahh pulltician you hefta lie.

Iwreck - we wuz jess doin right and when you do right it don't matter how you gitRdun.

Dung Beetle Hutchinson - helping burry Elephant shit.