Reply #45: It doesn't matter if Cheney was under oath or not when he talked with

[1monster]

FBI investigators. If you lie to a officer of the law who is conducting an investigation, you are guilty of obstruction of justice, among other things.

This Administration seems to believe that if they are not under oath, they have no obligation to testify truthfully. That simply is not true. And it may be possible to have perjury charges brought against someone who has not taken an oath if he/she lies (materially) to an official body in an official session.

The sources added that the emails could prove that Cheney lied to FBI investigators when he was interviewed about the leak in early 2004. Cheney said that he was unaware of any effort to discredit Wilson or unmask his wife’s undercover status to reporters.

Cheney was not under oath when he was interviewed. He told investigators how the White House came to rely on Niger documents that purportedly showed that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from the African country.