Congress won't charge Palmeiro with perjury

[sabra]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9980814/

Congress won't charge Palmeiro with perjury
Baseball star was investigated for possibly lying during steroid hearing

Baseball star Rafael Palmeiro will not be prosecuted on perjury charges after lawmakers said Thursday there isn’t enough evidence to prove he lied when he told a congressional panel under oath that he had “never used steroids” — six weeks before failing a steroid test.

“The committee will not make a perjury referral to the Department of Justice,” the House Government Reform Committee said in a 44-page report on the Palmeiro case released Thursday. “A referral for perjury is a serious step. In this case, the evidence before the committee is insufficient to merit a perjury referral.”

The report said the panel “did not make further determinations about the accuracy or inaccuracy of assertions by Mr. Palmeiro or others.”

[ananda]

1. hehehheh

I guess they're being honest in not charging a fellow perjurer... If they charged him, they'd have to admit that perjury is a crime.

Oh how this country's once stately mansions have crumbled...

[acmejack]

2. Lucky for him that he votes republiCon.

If he was a dem, he would be in deep doodoo.

[zbdent]

3. Raf must be aware of which cheek his butt

is buttered on . . . :evilgrin:

[AValdoux]

4. What about...

...Chertoff? Brownie? Anyone who has said there are over $100k Iraqi troops ready to go?

I could go on. Not the oil exec's though, they didn't have to promise not to lie.


AValdoux