Libby, say hello to Liddy
...and join the small elite club of White House officials convicted of felonies. It's been over 30 years since the last one.
Well shoot .. we didn't "get" anything on my personal nemesis Karl Rove .. although that DC jury sure wanted to.
What the Libby trial was really all about -- what it has always been about -- is whether the Bush White House deliberately misled the American people about WMD intelligence before the war.
Simple as that. And Fitzgerald could smell that they did. He was right to go after them, to prove that an intelligent, sane man like Libby would risk jail to protect his bosses because he was trying to hide something big. What could it be?
Nobody else lied to the FBI and the grand jury. Only Libby. So it looks like he was trying to hide the one thing he knew that no one else did -- the fact that he learned Valerie Plame Wilson's identity from Dick Cheney.
It was probably for a very good reason that Cheney went ballistic over what Joe Wilson was saying .. and the end result was that Cheney ferreted out the identity of Wilson's wife, passed it along to Libby, and told him to sic the press on them.
Libby thought it was worth lying about this because it would show just how big a hand Cheney had in spinning the pre-war intelligence on Iraqi WMDs. That was the one thing serious enough to make them wildly overreact.
Libby deserves his convictions. The only unfair thing about the whole trial is that his boss, the guy who was behind the whole thing, wasn't in the dock with him.
I just hope we will at some point learn everything they were trying to cover-up .. I want to know who forged the Italian yellow-cake documents, and who knew.
One sure thing about the Libby case -- the trial itself will be remembered for pulling back the curtain on the Bush White House as it frantically tried to cover up its intentional effort to mislead the nation to war.
And we saw those dirty swift-boating tricks in action.
Yesterday was a very good day for America. Guilty verdicts in the Libby trial ..
Congressional hearings being held on the illegal justice tampering in New Mexico, and the part it played in the greater unethical firing of US Attorneys ..
Congressional hearings on the shameful neglect and disregard for the health and safety of our wounded veterans .. the very troops the White House has spent the last five years hiding behind ..
Yes, little by little, maybe we can get our country back .. be proud to be Americans again.
