Number of posts : 2156 Location : Arizona Registration date : 2008-11-18
Subject: What this administration does best Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:25 am
Reminds me of what the meaning of "is" is.
When Wisconsin Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner and Attorney General Eric Holder had a sharp back-and-forth on whether or not officials in the Department of Justice lied to Congress. The questioning was during Thursday morning’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on Operation Fast and Furious.
“First let me make something very clear, in response to an assertion you made, or hinted at: Nobody in the Justice Department has lied,” Holder said in response to accusations that he or his confidantes lied to Congress. “Nobody has lied.”
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Still unsatisfied, Sensenbrenner followed up again. “Tell me what the difference is between lying and misleading Congress in this context?,” he asked Holder.
Holder responded that whether a statement is a lie or misleading comment depends on what the person making it is thinking at the time.
“If you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind, and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that can be considered perjury or a lie,” Holder said. “The information that was provided in that February 4th letter was gleaned by the people who drafted the letter after they interacted with people who they thought were in the best position to have the information.”
bbqbob
Number of posts : 1918 Age : 90 Location : North Texas Registration date : 2008-11-11
Subject: Re: What this administration does best Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:13 am
He must have taken a lesson from slick Willy!!!
cactus_jack
Number of posts : 2156 Location : Arizona Registration date : 2008-11-18
Subject: Re: What this administration does best Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:44 am
Yes it seems these people on the left can't open their mouth without telling a lie.