Still, the retreat on Iran notwithstanding, there can be little doubt that McConnell will extend himself to obstruct what's left of the President's agenda.
If he wanted to condemn this execution, or even to seek to obstruct it, he laid himself open to an objection: you're a stranger, what do you know?
None of the charges, so far, directly address whether the Trump campaign knowingly colluded with the Russians, or whether the President himself obstructed justice.
Mr. Hunter, who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and concealing crimes, acknowledged firing shots himself at the civilians, none of whom were armed.
The government has charged Mr. Schwarz, 34, with plotting to obstruct justice by fabricating a cover story for himself during a flurry of frantic phone calls with the two fellow officers who are also on trial, Thomas Bruder and Thomas Wiese.
Chart: "Testimony in the Leak Trial" I. Lewis Libby Jr. was convicted yesterday of perjuring himself and obstructing an investigation into who leaked the name of a C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, whose husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, criticized the administration's Iraq policy.
Is a prosthetic device a foot, or is it an actual foot?" I.A.A.F. officials have also expressed concern that Pistorius could topple over, obstructing others or injuring himself and fellow competitors.
And has anyone perjured himself or obstructed the investigation, both of which could be cause for indictment?The background to the case is that shortly before Ms Plame was unmasked, her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador, derided Mr Bush's claim, in the state-of-the-union address in January 2003, that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa.
Starr's focus was entirely on Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky and his various efforts to cover it up, not only by lying to his wife, his staff, the Cabinet, and the American people but also by perjuring himself and obstructing justice.
Although damning, the tapes did not contain the "smoking gun" that would prove that the president himself ordered the break-in or attempted to obstruct justice.
