A lie by any other name

This AP article uses some artful phrasing, the kind "polite" Washington insiders use to gently rebuff politicians (not named Clinton or Gore), in discussing Scott McClellan's testimony before Congress.

On Friday, McClellan returned repeatedly to his theme that Bush, Cheney and others in the administration had done great damage to themselves — and by extension to aides like McClellan — by being less than truthful on a range of official matters.

Somehow, BEING LESS THAN TRUTHFUL just does not carry the same force as LYING.


Because LYING about ten bl*w j*bs is an impeachable offense. But BEING LESS THAN TRUTHFUL, even if it gets 4,200 member of the U.S. armed forces killed, not to mention results in the deaths of 1,000,000 and the displacement of 4,000,000 Iraqis, would apparently not amount to an impeachable offense, because, it's different from LYING.