Letters to the Editor
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The crime of Libby
What keeps getting missed in most of the opeds about Libby's crime not being what Fitzgerald was supposed to be investigating is that Libby's lying to the grand jury and the FBI created an obstruction to Fitzgerald's investigation of the original issue about the outing of CIA agent Plame. Libby lied to block Fitzgerald's investigation from getting to the truth about why she was outed. LYING TO A GRAND JURY and THE FBI regarding an ongoing investigation about a potential crime, is, in and of itself, a crime. Fitzgerald has not yet been able (partially because of Libby's lying) to determine whether the outing of Plame was done maliciously and purposefully by the Bush administration, and if so, why?. That part of the investigation is still ongoing, but for now at least, Libby is out of the way.