{"id":6664,"date":"2010-08-20T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2010-08-20T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:56:47","slug":"roger-clemens-indictment-why-not-also-prosecute-congressmen-who-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6664\/roger-clemens-indictment-why-not-also-prosecute-congressmen-who-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Clemens Indictment:  Why Not Also Prosecute Congressmen Who Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that baseball legend Roger Clemens will be <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/08\/19\/breaking-roger-clemens-to-be-indicted\/\" target=\"_blank\">indicted<\/a> for lying to Congress during his 2008 testimony over alleged steroid use.\u00a0 While we agree with Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/issa.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darryl Issa<\/a> (R &#8211; California) that perjury is a serious offense, it raises an interesting question:\u00a0 If Congress can hold citizens legally accountable for such things as lying about private behavior by professional athletes, why not hold Congress similarly liable for lying to citizens about matters of public concern?<\/p>\n<p>After all, isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s good for the goose also good for the gander?\u00a0 It might also clean up Congress quicker than even term limits could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that baseball legend Roger Clemens will be indicted for lying to Congress during his 2008 testimony over alleged steroid use.\u00a0 While we agree with Congressman Darryl Issa (R &#8211; California) that perjury is a serious offense, it raises an interesting question:\u00a0 If Congress can hold citizens legally accountable for such things as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1732,84,1733,1736,1734,1381,1735],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-clemens","tag-congress","tag-indictment","tag-perjury","tag-steroids","tag-term-limits","tag-testimony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}