Perjury was what Ilaine called it, I don't know what the official charge is. E.g,
At any rate, I brought up Clinton's perjury trial in the context of Libby's perjury , Message 23298400 , take it up with her if you have a problem with that characterization.
My understanding was that Fitzgerald was looking into who outed Plame, and Libby claimed, among numerous other things, that he first heard of Plame's CIA linkage from Tim Russert, of all people. Libby may well get off, but the story that came out at trial, of all manner of Cheney / Bush operatives in a tizzy over Wilson's op-ed, crawling over each other in the kind of smear campaign that W's operatives have alway prided themselves on, is certainly quite a contrast with the official line at the time.
But apparently in you indisputable POV, in true W "personal responsibility" fashion, the buck stops as far away from W as possible, in this case apparently with Fitzgerald. Certainly not with Cheney, who would seem to be the prime mover here in the reality-based community version. Cheney's obviously the victim, but more on that elsewhere. |
