Galloway hits back at US Iraqi oil fraud claims (asks for perjury chg to

[papau]

prove GOP are liars via a legal venue in the United States).

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=2142982005

Tue 25 Oct 2005

Galloway hits back at US Iraqi oil fraud claims


MAVERICK MP George Galloway has challenged the US authorities to bring perjury charges against him so he can fly out to Washington and defend himself.

He was reacting angrily to a claim by the US Senate Committee which accused him of receiving oil money from Saddam Hussein that he lied under oath when he appeared before it. <snip>

They claim they have fresh evidence linking Mr Galloway and his estranged wife Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad with Iraqi government oil vouchers. <snip>

But Mr Galloway said today: "I did not lie under oath in front of the Senate Committee. "I'm still willing to go to the United States and still willing to face any charge of perjury in front of that Senate Committee. "I'm demanding that they charge with me contempt and with perjury."
<snip>

http://www.scotsman.com/?id=2142982005


UK Lawmaker Galloway Denies Senate Claims of Lies
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aC8Ur7VIuqWw&refer=uk
Galloway 'received Saddam oil allocations'
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/09fef66e-44f4-11da-a5f0-00000e2511c8.html

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5687461.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4374534.stm

[Oversea Visitor]

1. So disgusting

Is this the standard that your elected representative have sink to.
This is not good.
I hope your elected representatives grow ball and take up the offer.

[truthisfreedom]

2. touche, Mr. Galloway. i'd love to see you come back and mop the floor with

coleman and company.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

3. Good old George (the scottish one, that is)...

... does like to raise the stakes doesn't he?

I must admit I did enjoy his thumbing his nose at Committee back in May. I hope for the sake of honesty that he's not culpable in any way. Although, that said, he does at least provide good entertainment in an otherwise "grey" political culture in the UK.

I guess we should "watch this space". Could prove to be very interesting in the long term.

[Pachamama]

59. I think that whether Galloway is guilty or not, I think that he's going to

to take these GOP asswipes like Coleman and serve it right back to them.

I think this is going to get good....If Coleman and the GOP thought that they could teach Galloway and any other Brit who dares to speak out a "lesson", they are only going to find that he will speak truth to power and take them down to hell with him.

I personally think this is a "set-up"....I don't believe Galloway is guilty and he knows its a set-up and whether he can prove it or not (my money is on the fact that he knows that what they have is probably as solid as those famous "Niger Yellowcake docs" and instead he'll show the world what liars and criminals the GOP in America is.

I can see the hearings now:

Coleman: Its an atrocity that you would steal this money from the Iraqis to profiteer personally when it should have been used to help the Iraqis.

Galloway: Who do you think America is going to think is worse and guilty of a bigger "atrocity": Me or you and the Bush Administration that has STOLEN OVER $300 BILLION FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, FORGED AND FALSIFIED INFORMATION TO ATTACK IRAQ AND KILL AND OCCUPY IRAQ ILLEGALLY ALL WHILE KILLING OVER 100,000 IRAQIS, MAIMING AND INJURING ALMOST 50,000 US SOLDIERS AND KILLING OVER 2000 US SOLDIERS?

You can call me any name and accuse me of anything you want, and even if I was guilty, which I am not, it will never compare to the criminal acts and lies that you, a representative of the GOP and mouthpiece for the Bush Administration have perpetrated against the American people, the Iraqi people and the rest of the world.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

66. You better believe it...

...Galloway is an outspoken individual (notice the understatement there) and has been a thorn in the side of the Blair "administration" - much to the joy of many Brits.

Let's see if the GOP actually grow balls big enough to call Galloway out.

If they do - they need to be VERY careful. I would not unwisely take on a man born, brought (or dragged) up in Glasgow, and delivering his brand of socialism in the unions with the help of clenched fists.

:evilgrin:

[Coexist]

4. Ol' Normie Boy is only tough when George is safely across the pond

huh!!!

[Mokito]

5. Am I the only one...

who sees this as a personal vendetta from a severely battered and deeply humiliated Coleman?

[TygrBright]

14. What?!? Personal vendetta? Norm the weasel?

Surely not!

Such a NICE fella, weasel-boy. Just ask the voters of St. Paul...

incredulously,
Bright

[woodsprite]

15. I'd like to see them take the issue into a back alley. Bet

Galloway could rearrange Coleman's teeth a bit :) and come out the winner. Coleman wants a pissing contest and Galloway isn't biting. Coleman is better off to just let it drop cause Galloway would wipe the Senate floor up with him.

Can't ya tell, I dislike Coleman with a passion - and I'm not even from his state.

[Kralizec]

19. They just accused him of lying. I'd be upset too. n/t

[stepnw1f]

63. A Republican Whiny Trait

Like rich little brats who are too used to getting their way.

[mrfrapp]

6. BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4374534.stm

Includes video interview.

[papau]

9. Thanks - I added the link to the orginal post as an edit. Seems around

the world folks are being told the GOP does "lies" - but only to a limited extent in the US is our media allowed to say GOP and liar in the same article.

[Lochloosa]

7. Not to worry Mr Galloway, perjury is no big deal in the US

:sarcasm:

[Jacobin]

8. I hope the stitches in Normie's neck have healed

because he is about to get his head ripped off his shoulders again.

:woohoo:


:woohoo:

[deminks]

10. AFP headline: Come and get me, British MP Galloway challenges US Congress

Same info, I just loved the headline.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051025/pl_afp/usbritainpoliticsiraq_051025102611

[papau]

12. :-)

:thumbsup:

:toast:

:-)

[afdip]

11. when faced with a mountain of lies (their own) the repukes

start calling other people liars.

[jamesinca]

13. I hope they do it

I want to see Galloway in the US again. I enjoyed it last time, I recorded it and watch it when there is nothing else on. I watch it when there is something on too.

[emad]

16. Galloway will be fed to the lions. UK and US spooks/cops have

waited a long time to get their man, guess this is it.

[truebrit71]

30. What the heck are you on about....??

...George has already won a defamation suit about these and similar charges, and Slimy Coleman had better be bloody careful George can't sue him for the same in the U.K. Want to talk about good theatre? How about Normy stuttering his way through a trial in London...

Galloway handed Coleman his arse on national T.V., and the little nancy is still sore about it...

My prediction is that Coleman keeps yapping, Galloway threatens to sue, and then Normy is well and truly buggered whichever way he goes....

I guess Normy is the kind of moran that keeps on hitting the hornets nest until ALL of the hornets are after him....

[emad]

68. Galloway sued the Telegraph for repeating a smear started by the

Christian Science Monitor. And won £150,000 damages.

Like hapless Rupert Allason before him, he may well be the subject of an elaborate sting operation designed to make him feel over-confident.

Now his Oil-for-Fraud bank accounts and transactions have been made public, he's still bluffing his way out of it.

Don't confuse his public anti-Bush/anti-Iraq war stance with any altruism or political/moral high ground.

The man is 100% opportunist crook.

And he's just walked into a trap of his owne mmaking.

I do not doubt that if Fitzgerald busts Rove for the Plame business then Galloway will go down big-time, either in the US or in the UK.

He's been a sitting duck for the spooks/cops ever since that @I salute you Mr Saddam Hussein' business back in '94.

[cantstandbush]

17. You know they won't bring perjury charges. They just want to smear.

I hope they do bring perjury charges...let's let it all hang out.

[norml]

18. Galloway rejects senate perjury claims

Galloway rejects senate perjury claims

Staff and agencies
Tuesday October 25, 2005



George Galloway addresses the US senate subcommittee for homeland security and governmental affairs in Washington. Photograph: Dennis Cook/AP



A furious George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein's oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.
The US Senate inquiry into the Bethnal Green and Bow MP's alleged involvement in the saga claims to have discovered $150,000 (£85,000) in Iraqi oil money in his estranged wife's bank account.

Its chairman, the Republican senator Norm Coleman, says this means Mr Galloway lied under oath when giving evidence to the senate permanent sub-committee on investigations on May 17, when he offered a passionate defence against similar claims.

Today Mr Galloway repeated denials that he had ever received any oil cash, and told Mr Coleman to "put up or shut up" by either bringing a prosecution or dropping the allegations. The Respect MP accused Mr Coleman of orchestrating a "sneak revenge attack" motivated by a desire to avenge his "humiliation" at the hearing in May.


snip


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1600268,00.html

[Peace Patriot]

20. Go, George! These lying slimebags, murderers, thieves and traitors...

...are going down!

[Nederland]

21. Galloway could be fucked

He's going to have a hard time explaining this:

The documents released yesterday include wire transfers to and from the Citibank account of Fawaz Zureikat, a Jordanian businessman who was allegedly the agent for transactions related to Iraqi oil allocations for Mr Galloway. The documents show a transfer of $740,000 (£420,000) in July 2000 into the account of Mr Zureikat as a commission from Taurus Petroleum, a Swiss company. Taurus had purchased the oil from another company, Aredio Petroleum, which had acquired the oil directly from Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation. Within days after the transfer, Mr Zureikat moved $150,000 from that account to an account for Mr Galloway's wife, Amineh Abu-Zayad, and another $340,000 to an account for Mariam Appeal, Mr Galloway's UK-based political campaign.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/09fef66e-44f4-11da-a5f0-00000e2511c8.html

[geek tragedy]

22. Careful--folks don't like you criticizing their sacred cows. eom

[Nederland]

27. So True

From the quick responses below you'd think I had just suggested that Mumia Abu-Jamal was guilty... :)

[merwin]

23. You shouldn't believe everything you read in the newspaper.

Especially when it comes out of the right wing's mouths.

I'll lay money down on the GOP fabricating charges.

[demobrit]

24. Innocent until proven guilty

Let Mr Galloway explain himself again to the subcommitee , would be great theatre

[bemildred]

25. There is nothing to explain there.

This is exactly what Mr. Galloway says occurred.
Normie is trying to smear Mr. Galloway again.

[papau]

26. There is one accounting type account with many types of transactions

in it.

Nothing in those wire transfers or in the transfers to Galloway indicate Galloway getting and selling oil vouchers.

Indeed Coleman relies on a proven liar for the voucher charge - I doubt that Galloway will have problems in any US Court.

[Nederland]

32. True

However, we are posting on a board where people have no difficultly connecting a far larger number of dots between Bush and Osama.

Seems like a double standard to me...

[maximovich]

71. Must Be Fair to G-O-P

m-u-s-t b-e ffff...........

[bpilgrim]

28. for speaking out against the illegal war

is what the neoCONs and their supporters always say.

he committed the ultimate crime by exposing our CORRUPT political system.

peace

[underpants]

31. Flying blind here but....

I've only read the snippets posted so take this as you will.

Galloway said that he had not made any money from the oil-for-food program. He didn't say that he didn't receive any and he didn't say anything about his campaign funds or his charity receiving any. I could be wrong but tracking those down could be of some assistance.

Either way it really doesn't matter perjury is just a technicality anyway and not really any big deal in this world post 9/11 where everything has changed like the President being advised by tax payer paid lawyers that he is above the law.

[katinmn]

55. The President and VP had no problem forging documents

why would a lowly senator who wants to follow in their footsteps hesitate to do something similar?

It's a matter of looking at Coleman's track record. Coleman lacks integrity and puts the neocon agenda ahead of everything else. His track record is one of lying to protect Bush.

[Rainscents]

69. You kidding??? You believe shit comes from right wing news paper???

[maximovich]

72. Yes... he/she Apparently Does

ands pre-emptively took a jab at those who don't. Seems to me he/she wants all of us to be quiet and agree as well. Hence the "Sacred Cow" remark by a responder. Nice try, huh?

[Nederland]

73. No more than I believe the shit that comes from DU

IOW, I don't believe either the left or the right has a monopoly on the truth.

How about you?

[0007]

29. I hope all Minnesotans jump Norm Coleman and bitch slap

this silly son-of-a-bitch, that doesn't have enough sense to run a hot dog stand.

I just voted that Jeff Sessions & John Cornyn were the dumbest on the Senate floor. What was I thinking of!!??

Norm Coleman is not only super dumb, he is vindictive and a poor loser.

[AnneD]

60. So much stupidity...

so few vote. Thanks for supporting my Tx senator Cornyn:puke: (cause I sure as hell don't). I have given up writing to him-he never responds.
Our other is Kay Bailey, at least she writes back. Wish she hadn't been pimped for the WH RW spin. Bald face lying is never becoming to a lady.
No Norm, he's just butt ugly to his soul. If someone will hold my purse, I'll be happy to bitch slap him silly before I open my can of whup ass. On second thought, I think the distinguished MP deserves first turn.

[CHIMO]

33. Galloway rejects senate perjury claims

A furious George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein's oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.

The US Senate inquiry into the Bethnal Green and Bow MP's alleged involvement in the saga claims to have discovered $150,000 (£85,000) in Iraqi oil money in his estranged wife's bank account.

Today Mr Galloway repeated denials that he had ever received any oil cash, and told Mr Coleman to "put up or shut up" by either bringing a prosecution or dropping the allegations. The Respect MP accused Mr Coleman of orchestrating a "sneak revenge attack" motivated by a desire to avenge his "humiliation" at the hearing in May.

"I am demanding prosecution, I am begging for prosecution," Mr Galloway told Sky News. "I am saying if I have lied under oath in front of the senate, that's a criminal offence. Charge me and I will head for the airport right now and face them down in court as I faced them down in the senate room.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1600118,00.html

Thems fighting words.

[rodeodance]

34. Come on over and give another speach to Colman. you were great

last time.

[babylonsister]

35. Amy on Democracy Now mentioned Galloway wanted to go

back to the Senate to defend these accusations. I hope Galloway is proved correct, and Coleman is just doing this because he was humiliated. I'd love to see Galloway hand Coleman his ass yet again.

[Pachamama]

36. I think its a set-up....And I think Galloway not only knows it is, he's

not going to sit back and take it....I think the Neo-cons are hoping that he'll shut up or that they can shame him....

I think they figured wrong...I think Galloway knows these criminals have set him up and he'll fight it all the way to help expose these people.

Worst case scenario: Galloway won't be able to prove he's innoncent, but in the meantime will have an opportunity to embarress the Bush/Cheney Cabal through the whole process.

I think Galloway is going to end up taking the noose from around his neck and manage to bring the whole cabal with him....

I think the Neo-cons are screwed....

[rzemanfl]

38. One of their sources is Tariq Azziz. How many time was that guy

called a liar by BushCo as they sold their war product to America?

[rodeodance]

42. my gawd--Colman et al. would be so foolish to take the word of Tariq Aziz

....The committee attributes its findings to personal interviews with high-level members of the Hussein regime, anonymous oil traders with personal knowledge of Mr Galloway's involvement and extensive bank records.

It claims that a Jordanian businessman and friend of Mr Galloway's, Fawaz Zureikat, channelled the money from the UN oil-for-food programme to the MP's former wife and to the Mariam Appeal.


It also cites testimony from the former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz who has been in jail since the US invasion of Iraq and who allegedly told investigators Mr Galloway had requested oil allocations in the name of Mr Zureikat.

[Pachamama]

58. LOL! Their "source" is another Iraqi whose credibility has been questiond

on multiple occassions and called a liar by the administration! Maybe that "torture-thingy" works in getting the info they "want"....

Even more despicable today is the fact that Coleman couldn't even wait until say tommorrow or next week to make this announcement, he had to grand-stand on the anniversary of Paul Wellstone's murder (uh, death :eyes:). If it wasn't for that "death", Coleman wouldn't even be in Washington right now....

I hope Galloway serves Coleman's ass up to him good.... :grr:

[rzemanfl]

37. So is "lickspittle"-"rejects" is putting it so lightly. He is taking no

shit and no prisoners. Bless his heart.

[rodeodance]

39. ....."Because I publicly humiliated this lickspittle senator..." love it!!

....."Because I publicly humiliated this lickspittle senator Norman Coleman - one of Bush's righthand men - in the US senate in May, this sneak revenge attack has been launched over the past 24 hours."

The committee's new report accuses Mr Galloway of personally soliciting and being granted eight oil allocations totalling 23m barrels from the Hussein government between 1999 and 2003.

It claims his estranged wife, Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, received approximately $150,000 in connection with one allocation of oil. It also alleges that at least $446,000 was funnelled to Mr Galloway's Mariam Appeal through several allocations.

Senator Coleman said: "I directed the sub-committee to continue its investigation into Mr Galloway because his testimony at the May 17, 2005 hearing so clearly conflicted with the evidence. The additional evidence ... clearly demonstrates that the testimony Mr Galloway provided to the sub-committee was false and misleading."

[goforit]

40. Rethuglicans giving Blair some help?

[mzmolly]

41. Galloway needs to appear all over the US media and say these words.

This is more "Plamesque" smear and Americans are waking up to the Republicans filthy ballgame.

[rodeodance]

43. Fox news is reporting on this right now.

[rodeodance]

44. Colman is on saying this will go to Federal procecutors.

[rodeodance]

45. They brought up Higgens and say he has evidence also.

[rodeodance]

46. they also said that Azziz said the Gallaway recieved the money.--showed

a clip of him (when he was in power under SH).

[rodeodance]

49. 'even if you are not an american citizen you are not above american law"

was the parting comment on Fox (Brit Hume show).

[rodeodance]

50. well, Fox news has Gallaway as guilty (no surprize).

[mzmolly]

51. No surprise

;)

[fedsron2us]

54. Unless you belong to certain Saudi families.

[0007]

56. Is that the famous Professor Higgens of the "My Fair Lady" play?

[Catrina]

47. Galloway should sue Coleman

personally. He made him look like a fool the last time they met, Coleman was practically in tears.

It would be great theater, if nothing else. I wonder why Coleman isn't at all concerned about the millions and millions of dollars Halliburton has stolen and Dick Cheney in particular has profited from in what is an illegal holding of stock options in a company which he stood to gain from, when he lied to get us into war.

Even if everything Coleman is saying about Galloway were true, it pales in comparison to what Cheney et al have stolen from this country, and even worse, by fabricating evidence to take us to war. And, not being honest with the Senate when he said he had no financial connection to Halliburton which is the law for a VP.

If Coleman is so worried about corruption, how come we never hear him worry about these little matters?

And, I found out that all this 'Oil for Food' stuff, charges against people they want to get revenge on, Kofi Annan and now Galloway, came from a rightwing think tank. Can't remember the name of it, unfortunately, but the 'journalist' who pushed this story, was another Judy Miller.

These fools and crooks, like Libby and Cheney and Coleman spend more time seeking revenge on those who disagree with them than they do trying to find Osama Bin Laden.

Go Gallaway!! Keep telling them the truth in your own words. Too bad it has to come from someone from another country.

[ed murrow]

48. Coleman is such a clown

I really think Coleman took this as so persoonal because Galloway made him look so foolish

[rodeodance]

52. article says Justice Depart potentially can charge Galloway with prejury.

.....The report also quotes the former Iraqi oil minister Amer Rashid as confirming Mr Galloway was granted oil allocations.

The committee then printed alleged documents that it claimed proved the money transfers were made. A senate aide said the information had been turned over to the US Department of Justice, which potentially had the power to press charges of perjury. The information will also be given to the British authorities.

The Respect MP recently won £150,000 in libel damages after suing the Telegraph over documents published in 2003, in which he was said to have asked for an increased allocation from the oil-for-food programme. The newspaper is currently appealing that ruling.

[fedsron2us]

53. Just a little distraction

to take your eyes off the casualty figures from Iraq.

[cal04]

57. Galloway: 'Bring It On'/ Sky News

Updated: 17:09, Tuesday October 25, 2005


George Galloway has told a US Senate Committee to charge him with perjury after American politicians accused the rebel MP of pocketing cash from Saddam Hussein's oil-for-food programme. A US Senate committee claims to have discovered £85,000 in Iraqi oil money in his wife's bank account. Mr Galloway may face criminal charges if found to have given false testimony to the committee when he defended himself against similar claims earlier this year.

"I demand they charge me with perjury now," he told Sky News.

"It's Groundhog Day. I've already comprehensively dealt with these allegations under oath in the High Court and the US Senate, to the Charity Commission and in innumerable media inquiries. "Let me once again repeat. I have never benefited from any oil deal and I have never asked anyone to act on my behalf."

Mr Galloway added: "I did not lie under oath in front of the Senate committee. "Indeed, it was the power of my truth in front of the Senate committee which has got the Senator so scorned that he has returned to this sneak attack."

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13453281,00.html

[mallard]

61. Re: Galloway: The senators scent blood

Re: Scotsman - 10/26/05 - Politics
Galloway: The senators scent blood
by James Kirkup;

<http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=2145032005>


- Galloway demands to face Senate accusers in court over latest allegations
- Senate committee alleges Galloway solicited 23m barrels of Iraqi oil
- Committee also alleges ex-wife and charity profited from illegal oil sales

"Charge me and I will head for the airport right now and face them down in court as I faced them down in the Senate room" - George Galloway, Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow


The fate of George Galloway, the renegade anti-war MP facing allegations of taking money from Saddam Hussein's regime, could be decided by an architect of the Bush administration's "war on terror".

In the latest twist in Mr Galloway's public battle with Republican senators on Capitol Hill, the Respect MP yesterday challenged his accusers to "put up or shut up" and produce the evidence they say they possess and which "proves" he lied to a congressional hearing in May.

Having become something of a hero to the American left for his fire-and-brimstone clash with senators in Washington, Mr Galloway is now eager to give a repeat performance. Yesterday he threatened to fly to the hometown of his main accuser for a no-holds-barred public slugging match.

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said yesterday that it had uncovered new evidence which undermines Mr Galloway's insistence that he never profited from contacts he had with the Saddam regime.

As part of their inquiry into alleged abuses of the oil-for-food scheme that allowed pre-war Iraq to trade some oil in exchange for essential goods, the senators say they have obtained new evidence damning Galloway. Among the new allegations made against the former Govan MP are:

- Between 1999 and 2003, he "solicited and was granted" tokens giving him control of 23 million barrels of oil from the Baghdad government.

- That his wife, Amineh Abu-Zayyad, received about $150,000 (?4,000) in connection with one allocation of oil.

- That the Mariam Appeal, a charity associated with the MP, received at least $446,000 (?50,000) in connection with several allocations granted under the oil-for-food programme.



More likely they'll bar Galloway from re-entry to the US than allow him a second chance to slam-dunk the Senate over a campaign of lies to discredit him - such a righteous and outspoken opponent of the war. This is his 'sentence' for insulting them in May, and the final word of lasties discredit, end of story - or so we''ll see.

Take note all - the fate of anyone dare question the War-ocon morality in doing their best to get us involved in spewing democracy in Iraq. No way George gets to answer them back face-to-face again.

Maybe he'll get turned back at Customs just to make the point more personal.

[DaveColorado]

62. Oh so it's just some perjury technicality?

That's not a real crime.

:sarcasm:

[Amonester]

64. Yeah, and I wonder which slimy criminal personnage(s) did it

some 'not-so-ancient' times during the :puke: bee-oo-tee-fool days of the Raygun's regime, when it was oakay-doakay to profit to no-end from selling weapons to both 'sides' of the Iraq-Iran's "BritishEmpired" drawn "border"...

Re: "facing allegations of taking money from Saddam Hussein's regime"...

WHO? That forever n**i f**k we love to 'call' Rumsfailed??

Go get 'em, George. They'll cower away on first sight! }(

[donheld]

65. Why can't we have Democrats with this kind of spine

:grr: Mr Galloway has more of a backbone than any democrat in congress.

[Hekate]

67. Mr Galloway is certainly the most colorful witness in many a year

I know we all loved it and would like to see more of him, but when it comes to calling all the weasels for what they are we have to remember he doesn't have to actually work with them every day the way our Dems do. Even so, some of that fire would certainly do the Democrats a world of good.

Hekate

[toopers]

70. Maybe he didn't commit perjury . . .

maybe we didn't ask him the right questions. He may not have lied before but he may have been on the take. This will be interesting to watch.