In the last four years, the commission has removed only one trustee, after a judge ruled that he had perjured himself, and appointed only five interim managers to run suspect charities.
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.
It is possible that, in an odd replay of the Monica drama, he may now be primarily trying to prove that somebody in the White House has perjured himself or herself.One problem for Mr Fitzgerald may well be proving that Mr Novak's sources broke the law in the first place.
Justice is not blind The virtues of isolationism Reprints Related items The Libby trial: The fall guy fallsMar 8th 2007Of course, there is hypocrisy on all sides in this matter: Democrats ought to remember that Bill Clinton was never punished for having obviously perjured himself over his activities with Monica Lewinsky.
Instead, most people think that the president (a) perjured himself and (b) will get off.
The scandal, known as Whitewater, led to the appointment of a special prosecutor with the power to investigate anything who then discovered that Mr Clinton had perjured himself about oral sex with an intern.
Mr Clinton may well have perjured himself by denying the affair in his sworn deposition in the Paula Jones case; and perjury is perjury, even in a civil suit, and even in a case that has since been dismissed.
According to Hesiod's Theogony, if a god perjured himself, he was rendered insensible for a year and then banished from the divine society for nine years.
Decades after Kesselring's death in 1960, evidence was uncovered that showed he had perjured himself at both Dostler's trial and his own.
Thrust into power when Eliot Spitzer's dalliances with prostitutes became public in 2008, he is now fighting a drip of accusations of minor sleaze, including the claim that he intervened to help an aide accused in a domestic violence case and perjured himself in an ethics investigation into how he came by free tickets to a baseball game.
Mr Robertson said the actions of Lord Parker and his successor, Lord Widgery, in holding back the evidence that Ms Keeler had perjured herself in a separate trial were part of several deliberate acts of wrongdoing by judges which meant that Mr Ward should be posthumously exonerated.
