False Claim to Congress => Perjury Probe

Yesterday's WaPo has an article with this sentence:

Congress will investigate whether [Person X] perjured himself when he told [a Congressional] committee [something that may not be true].

Ok, that makes sense. On his Senate questionnaire concerning his nomination to be UN Ambassador, John Bolton provided an "inaccurate" answer to a question concerning whether he'd been interviewed by any Inspector General. The questionnaire is submitted with a sworn affidavit attesting to the accuracy of the answers. No one questions the fact that Bolton's answer was inaccurate.

Perhaps Bolton just forgot about the IG interview about one of the most reported and discussed issues flowing from the lies and distortions that enabled the Bush Administration's Iraq invasion (the IG investigation concerned the issue of Niger and uranium). Seems unlikely, but possible. Surely it is reasonable to leave open this possibility while Senator Richard Lugar's Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigates his "inaccurate" answer.

Because the quote from the WaPo article actually reads

Congress will investigate whether John Bolton perjured himself when he told the Senate Foreign Relations committee that he had not been interviewed by an IG in the preceding five years, something which is not true.

Right?

Wrong. The quote is actually

Congress will investigate whether baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro perjured himself when he told a House committee that he hadn't taken steroids.

This is what we've come to under the hypocritical "leadership" of Congressional Republicans.