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...Administration and its very unconservative approach to Executive power, the final years of Bush's presidency are likely to be punctuated by one controversy after another. The past weeks alone have produced a parade of revelations: leftover questions about Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby case; the betrayal by neglect of the war wounded at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals across the country; the connected dots showing that the White House and the Justice Department exploited the post-9/11 USA Patriot Act, of all things, to engineer a purge...
...Stephen Colbert, analyzing the movie on his show, could be onto something: that the wolf at the beginning of the film is the liberal press, various monsters are Nancy Pelosi and Tim Russert, and the Persian messenger whom Leonidas kicks over the edge of a deep well is Scooter Libby...
...stately Mike Mansfield Room and watched the proceedings quietly. Various Senators came by to ask him about his health after a blood-clot scare the day before. Others quietly lent support in the wake of that morning's four-count guilty verdict of Cheney's top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. But for all the personal shows of support, more Republicans with each passing week have acknowledged privately what is felt across Washington when it comes to the Vice President: his time has passed...
...over Clinton's large number of pardons at the end of his term may also give Bush pause. Among those forgiven by Clinton was Marc Rich, the fugitive millionaire wanted for tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran. Coincidentally, one of Rich's legal counsels in the 1980s was Scooter Libby...
This week's conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury will surely give the CIA some measure of vindication. Libby was a key figure in the White House's campaign to pressure the CIA to cook the books on Iraqi WMD. And, although he was not tried for it, Libby certainly was at the center of the campaign to expose and smear one of its former employees, Valerie Plame, and her husband Joe Wilson. Libby is the kind of political operative the CIA is more than happy to see go down. However, it's going to be a Pyrrhic victory...