An Interesting Letter to the Editor in the NYT

I was going to write something like this in response to Tierney's op-ed, but I see someone has already done it for me, so I'm copying this from the NYT letters to the editor devoted to the Plame leak.

"To the Editor:

In "Republicans Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges" (front page, Oct. 24), you quote Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, saying she hoped "that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime."

Senator Hutchison, in denigrating perjury charges, has reached the heights of hypocrisy in defense of her White House friends. In 1999, based on perjury charges related to a much less significant matter, this same senator voted to remove the president of the United States from office.

Greg Litt

New York, Oct. 24, 2005"