Salon: Suspicion centers on Lewis Libby

[kskiska]

Dick Cheney's chief of staff helped hype the Iraq threat and discredit Joe Wilson. But while the White House has denied Karl Rove is the leaker, so far it's left Libby twisting slowly in the wind.

By Eric Boehlert

Criminal leak investigations are notoriously futile, and the identity of the administration officials who illegally blew the cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame may never be known. But one name keeps coming up, and so far it hasn't provoked a specific, emphatic White House denial: Lewis "Scooter" Libby, assistant to the president and Vice President Dick Cheney's powerful chief of staff.

On Wednesday the New York Daily News reported that "Democratic congressional sources said they would like to hear from Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby." On MSNBC's "Buchanan and Press" on Wednesday, Pat Buchanan asked an administration critic who claims to know the leaker's name point blank if "Scooter Libby" was the culprit (the critic wouldn't answer). And Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska made a veiled reference on CNBC this week, suggesting that President Bush could better manage the current crisis by "sitting down with vice president and asking what he knows about it."

But below the surface there's even more chatter. Says one former senior CIA officer who served under President Bush's father, "Libby is certainly suspect No. 1."

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[seventhson]

1. Bush and Cheney both KNEW and approved the leaks AND...

you can see it in Pretzel-chokey's EYES when he lies about it

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Good one K

Looks like there is plenty of good stuff out there tonight! Looks like Cheney might soon be resigning for "health reasons". :-)

[kskiska]

3. Yup.

Hard to remember now how for months and months there was absolutely nothing good to report. Now there's plenty to go around. Things are definitely looking up. They got a little too arrogant and complacent.