How Damaging Is The Libby Conviction?

Captain's Quarters by Ed Morrissey | Mar. 7, 2007 (Opinion)

One can argue that the case has no real bearing on Cheney or his influence. After all, the leaks regarding Plame came from an entirely different area of the administration (State), and through someone who would rather see Cheney in flames than give him covert political assistance (Richard Armitage, to two different reporters). Patrick Fitzgerald will not pursue any more indictments in the case, and the only person who Cheney has to please is George Bush. Full Story »

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by Rory O'Connor - Mar. 7, 2007

Captain Ed says "Analysts and Democrats waited only moments after the conviction of Scooter Libby before tying the case around the neck of Vice President Dick Cheney," but then cites an NYT article that quotes Scott Reed, a Republican strategist, and Kenneth L. Adelman, a former Reagan administration official, doing just that! Perhaps that's why Ed rightly concludes that Cheney and his office "will have to answer a lot of questions over the next few weeks..." and that "The Libby ... More »

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