NY Times: A Judgment on Cheney Is Still to Come

[spanone]

WASHINGTON, March 6 — In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case. In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment.

For weeks, Washington watched, mesmerized, as the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. cast Vice President Cheney, his former boss, in the role of puppeteer, pulling the strings in a covert public relations campaign to defend the Bush administration’s case for war in Iraq and discredit a critic.

“There is a cloud over the vice president,” the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, told the jury in summing up the case last month.

Mr. Cheney was not charged in the case, cooperated with the investigation and expressed a willingness to testify if called, though he never was. Yet he was a central figure throughout, fighting back against suggestions that he and President Bush had taken the country to war on the basis of flawed intelligence, showing himself to be keenly sensitive to how he was portrayed in the news media and backing Mr. Libby to the end.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/washington/07cheney.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[soothsayer]

1. ok, but howard dean was on ed schultz saying first we gotta get

out of iraq... (before looking at doing fun impeachment stuff(

Sigh.

[opihimoimoi]

2. This ain't doing good for cheenys ticker...I would venture that

The scramble is on for the new VP?