Why Scooter’s Going to Prison
May 30th, 2007 at 5:59 am by Susie
This is, after all, the point:
Furthermore, Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin noted that Fitzgerald’s court filing further points to Vice President Cheney’s involvement in the outing of Plame.
“Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame,” writes Froomkin, “until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.”
Froomkin adds that in response to charges that Libby’s prosecution was unwarranted, “the special counsel evidently felt obliged to put Libby’s crime in context. And that context is Dick Cheney.”
