Perjury as "mistakenly"

With an ill advised recess appointment looming (my, haven't these been abused by the Bush admin), it comes out that Bolton's lying to congress, which I'm pretty sure is a pretty big crime, was no more than "mistaken testimony."

Amazing. Admit to perjury before congress, especially as it is regarding the Niger forgeries which were used for the mushroom cloud propaganda to sell the Iraq war, then appoint Bolton around a few Republican senators who find him so distastefully ill qualified that they can't even stomach a yes vote.

Pure balls

I guess after they brought in Elliot Abrams after his Iran Contra conviction, the law no longer applied to the republicans under the Bush administration.

From the AP:

John Bolton, President Bush's nominee for U.N. ambassador, mistakenly told Congress he had not been interviewed or testified in any investigation over the past five years, the State Department said Thursday.

Bolton was interviewed by the State Department inspector general as part of a joint investigation with the Central Intelligence Agency into prewar Iraqi attempts to buy nuclear materials from Niger, State Department spokesman Noel Clay said.

The admission came hours after another State Department official said Bolton had correctly answered a Senate questionnaire when he wrote that he has not testified to a grand jury or been interviewed by investigators in any inquiry over the past five years.