This was an American embarrassment, but similar insularity is on display in most nations at times when domestic comfort (false or otherwise) is threatened.
He was also found guilty of "instructing and otherwise persuading Senessie to give false information to the independent counsel appointed by the registrar".
Committees needed "the ability to call witnesses to account should they give false evidence or otherwise mislead a select committee", the Speaker told a Hansard Society event on Thursday.
It has been amply demonstrated that it is possible for false memories to be created, whether deliberately or otherwise, which are as reliable as any true memory.
What use will be made of false testimony given to an investigative agent who has not been subpoenaed or otherwise directed to appear before the grand jury is speculative.
To the thousands who have died, been mutilated, displaced or otherwise forced to endure month after month of Serbian aggression and savagery, it may seem hard to imagine that the false hope of repeated cease-fires will only be shattered by the act of recognition.