Flutterby™! :

The LA TImes reports:

He mocked the sanctimony of all who "sermonized about how terrible lying is."

Granted, lies were told, he said, but it hardly makes sense to "label every untruth and every deception an outrage."

He also condemned the "disconcerting and distasteful whiff of moralism and institutional self-righteousness" that led Congress to conduct hearings on the deceptions coming from the White House and he denounced the result as "a witch hunt."

So said the House Republican who led the defense of the Reagan administration during the Iran-Contra hearings, the same Rep. Henry J. Hyde of Illinois who is leading the impeachment inquiry against President Clinton.