bad Cheney and his gang? That appears to be the theme of recent articles. Like the LA Times article on Libby that even had documents given turned over to the times...by whom? and why? one wonders. What about the other cast of characters involved at the time?
Condi "Mushroom Cloud" Rice, WHIG, worked for Bush.
Hadley, WHIG, worked for Condi/Bush.
Karl "sorry, my conversation with Matt Cooper just slipped out of my mind when I first testified" Rove, WHIG, worked for Bush.
Karen Hughes, WHIG, worked for Bush.
Andrew "you don't bring out new products in August" Card, WHIG organizer, was Bush's Chief of Staff.
Ari Fleischer worked for Bush.
And not least, Rumsfeld and his OSP worked for Bush.
Seems the stenographer press is falling in line in a direction they've been steered to. It wasn't Bush's war, it was Cheney's and Rove was only playing telephone on the Plame thing because Scooter...what, coerced him?
Remember when Matt Cooper wrote about his testimony to the grand jury regarding his conversation with Rove? Rove told him Wilson's wife worked for the CIA on WMD and was responsible for sending Wilson to Africa. From his article:
"The notes, and my subsequent e-mails, go on to indicate that Rove told me material was going to be declassified in the coming days that would cast doubt on Wilson's mission and his findings."
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1083899,00.html That most likely was the now famous classified State Dept memo that apparently was and continued to be one of the sources for the Administration's campaign against Wilson using the media noise machine.
Clearly WH "strategery" is to throw the VP's office under the bus and try to save themselves.