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Joe,
There's another question. Reading though the facts presented in the indictment, it's clear that Cheney knew that Libby had lied under oath. Yet he did nothing. For almost a year Matt Cooper and Judith Miller were fighting the subpeona. Judith Miller spent 85 days in jail, yet Cheney did nothing.
Joe:
I've been watching pundits scratch their heads and wonder, "Why did Libby lie..it was so stupid," while his defense attorney is trying to claim it was simply a "memory lapse."
You need to point out that Fitzgerald is not charging him with "not remembering," but rather with fabricating a story (i.e., that he learned of Plame as the "end" of a chain of journalist's revelations to him).
Please go back and pull the contemporaneous GOP "talking points" at the time Libby was first contacted by the FBI. They claimed that the information about Plame came from reporters, not the administration.
With Ashcroft still in charge of the investigation when Libby was first interviewed, he simply regurgitated the "talking point" cover story as if it were true and was thereafter stuck with it.
Finally, it would be highly interesting if you could ferret out where these talking points originated. If Rove and Libby were involved in crafting them--and given what is already stated in Libby's indictment concerning their involvement in this matter--it would establish a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
