CounterPunch
by Elaine Cassel

10/31/05

The media is filled with Republican pundits, right-wring Christians, and arrogant politicians lambasting Patrick Fitzgerald for prosecuting Scooter Libby for lying to the FBI and the grand jury. Not a 'real' crime, sniffs Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who, surely, being from Texas, must know a lot about lies. Big lies, and how to tell them. Why is it that these Republicans choose not to embrace the truth, and telling the truth, as a revered 'family value' or American 'virtue?' It's because lying is part and parcel of their overarching policy -- a policy that is to its core, aggressive, yet weak, self-serving and subversive, manipulative, and antisocial."

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp