Though Not Charged, Cheney At Center Of Trial - MSNBC

[WillyT]

For what it's worth.

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And then there was this note, scrawled in Cheney’s own handwriting: “Not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy that was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others.” Prosecutors contended that this established Cheney’s determination to protect Libby, and thus his office, from being made a scapegoat for the White House and senior adviser Karl Rove.

In essence, according to the prosecution case, Libby was just the curtain. Cheney was the man behind the curtain.

“Everything ends up at Dick Cheney’s desk,” Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law specialist at George Washington University, said in an interview with MSNBC-TV. “His right-hand man is indicted; he’s intimately involved in the Niger allegation with weapons of mass destruction; he’s the one that seems to have instructed Libby.

“The biggest question is not whether he will be called as a witness but why he wasn’t a co-conspirator,” Turley added.

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17029067/

I didn't see, on Hardball or Olbermann today, any mention of the crossed out "the pres". This article does not mention it either. Has it been discussed in any MSM news broadcast???

:shrug:

[ozymandius]

1. I'll take a swing.

Turley asks an important question - but that isn't what this trial is about. Who outed Valerie Plame is not the issue. The issue is whether or not Libby perjured himself and obstructed justice.

This trial just seems to be laying the groundwork for the next one: Cheney's. That is, if it ever comes to that.

[leveymg]

2. That's a solid hit. Bases loaded.

Now, let's see Fitz hit it out of the park for the Home Team!