Closing Libby arguments were media focus, but big story was Fitz: "Cloud over" VP, White House

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: The Cloud Over Cheney
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

"What is this case about?" special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald asked in his rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments yesterday in the Scooter Libby perjury trial.

"Is it about something bigger?"

And while Fitzgerald never directly answered that second question, he at long last made it quite clear that the depth of Vice President Cheney's role in the leaking of the identity of a CIA operative is one of the central mysteries that Libby's alleged lies prevented investigators from resolving.

"There is a cloud over the vice president . . . And that cloud remains because this defendant obstructed justice," Fitzgerald said.

"There is a cloud over the White House. Don't you think the FBI and the grand jury and the American people are entitled to straight answers?" Fitzgerald asked the jury.

Libby, Fitzgerald continued, "stole the truth from the justice system."

After literally years of keeping his public pronouncements about the case to an absolute minimum, Fitzgerald yesterday finally let slip a bit of the speculation that many of us have long suspected has lurked just beneath the surface of his investigation....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

[waiting for hope]

1. Yeah!

IMPEACH THE BASTARD and then throw his bubba bitch ass in jail.

[wryter2000]

2. Please, oh, please

Waas also quoted sources as saying that if Libby is found guilty, the prosecution may pursue Cheney -- presumably by trying one more time to "flip" Libby and turn him into a prosecution witness.

I hope this source is correct. It seems to me that any sane jury has to convict Libby.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. That's what I was thinking, and my fingers are crossed for this verdict! nt

[hashibabba]

5. I don't recall how many years Libby is facting in prison,

but they probably wouldn't just set him free, they'd reduce the sentence.

YAY, Fitz!

[ClayZ]

4. WHOO HOO Fitzgerald! K and R

:applause: