Its Just a Little White Lie

Is the excuse that hard line Republicans will endlessly repeat if Fitzgerald brings perjury charges against leading White House officials.

Sen. Kay Hutchinson:

"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."

Hmmm... last time I checked committing perjury means going to jail. Definitely not some minor offense. Lying to a grand jury is something that should not be taken lightly. If I do remember wasn't it a certain Democratic President who got into trouble for lying under oath? And lying about sexual misconduct is a little more innocent than deliberating leaking a covert CIA agent or obstruction of justice.