From Anthony Weiner to Martha Stewart to Scooter Libby to Barry Bonds...they all lie. Do we have an epidemic of perjury today? Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James B. Stewart thinks we do. Further he thinks that without the truth, and without a mechanism to compel the truth, the links in our judicial chain are fragile indeed. Have we simply lost respect for the public, our courts and our judicial system? Stewart looks at all of this inTangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff.
My conversation with James B. Stewart: