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|4.1.06 @ 12:41AM|#
The most fascinating thing about this to me is not just that two sitting senators, Kyl and Graham, have evidently perjured themselves before the Supreme Court, by insisting that a fictitious floor debate favorable to the government's case actually transpired when indeed it never happened.
But the thing that really fascinates me is that the investigative reporter from Slate, Emily Bazelon, actually refused to call it what it was: perjury.
She instead referred to these premeditated criminal actions as a "card trick".
The trick is that nobody seemed to notice that these two jackasses didn't get charged with perjury and conspiracy to commit perjury.
Now that's some sleight of hand.
|4.2.06 @ 1:19PM|#
minor correction - Jon Kyl is identified a (R - Mich)- he is really from Arizona. (Michigan's Senators are Carl Levin and Debbie Stabneow)
|4.3.06 @ 1:50PM|#
"their statements were part of a scripted exhange read into the Congressional Record, replete with "interruptions" from other legislators and worries about running out of time designed to make it seem like part of a live debate on the Senate floor."
There's your answer: the Red Queen solution. "Sentence first, trial after."
Just take all those guys at Gitmo outside, dig a trench, give them each one round in the back of the head, and then write up trial transcripts with witnesses and evidence demonstrating beyond the shadow of a doubt that all were GUILTY AS SIN.