From her spokesman: "We take criticism from Alec Baldwin about as seriously as advice from Michael Moore."
Baldwin took Senator Hutchison to task for 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 and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars."
Of course, nobody should be surprised that Kay Bailey Hutchison voted to impeach Bill Clinton. At the time, she spared no effort in extolling the "gross abuse" of the public trust that President Clinton had perpetrated by lying about a blow job. She thought that such a deed was worthy cause to remove an elected official from the highest office of the land. It must require curious mental jujitsu then, for the Senator to shrug off lying by officials in this Republican administration that is done in the service of attempting to discredit intelligence officers with valuable information and warnings for the American people. The Whitewater investigation, which ultimately came up empty, went on for much longer and cost taxpayers so much more. It relied on the ethically dubious tactics of witness intimidation and constant leaks to the press in order to be as politically damaging as possible to the Democrat in the Oval Office. By contrast, Fitzgerald hasn't whored himself to the media at all, maintained a pretty low profile, and was put on the case by John Ashcroft's Justice Department.
The fact that Hutchison's office is inadvertently mimicking parody should make it obvious, Baldwin has a point. What the Senator said is completely hypocritical.
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