Libby truly is not alone; liars fill Bush's team

[CatWoman]

It's too bad I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is likely to be the only Bush-Cheney confidant prosecuted for an aversion to the truth. There are plenty of unindicted liars walking the halls of the Bush White House.

Not a week goes by without a leader in the Bush administration uttering a sentence or two that stretch credibility to the breaking point. Clearly, though, the most outrageous fabrications and most scurrilous falsehoods of the past six years were told in defense of the decision to invade Iraq.

Libby's defenders have pointed out, ad nauseam, that he was not charged with outing former CIA agent Valerie Plame — the incident that led to Libby's indictment. He was convicted on four counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice.

Still, his trial exposed the shameless scheming and skulduggery by which a debased administration sought one simple end: hiding the truth about the run-up to the war in Iraq. They were willing to do whatever it took to discredit Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, because he called them on 16 words in a presidential speech. As Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Libby was a central player in the smear campaign.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2007/03/09/0311edtuck.html

[emulatorloo]

1. It is too bad Dick Cheney did not take the stand for Libby -- he is a COMPULSIVE LIAR

He truly cannot help himself -- so pretty sure any testimony he would have give would result in a Perjury charge.