<<I remember this , not much of a lie as I recall , a minor misreporting.>>
He filed a report due immediately after the insider trade NINE MONTHS LATE. Then when asked for an explanation, he gave two different explanations, mutually exclusive. One of them had to be a lie. They were two totally different explanations.
<<I really didn't favor locking Martha Stewart up either , her infraction seemed minor to me.>>
Martha Stewart locked Martha Stewart up. She was offered a deal, admit to a lesser offence and no jail time would be asked for. She turned down the deal, against counsel's advice. The Feds weren't going to walk away from the case, and when they proved the case, the judge had no choice - - the jail time was mandatory.
<<Clintons pujury has been skipped over as if it didn't matter , which makes the law seem capricious. >>
Capricious indeed. Bush's lie to the SEC (a Federal offence) was also "skipped over" as if it didn't matter. The Commission counsel should have withdrawn and turned that investigation over to somebody else and he knew it, but he stayed on to be of service to the Bush family, his long-time clients.