Cheney on the Hot Seat
So Dick
Cheney is the guy who told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame's job at the CIA. This does complicate the situation, doesn't it?
I had a discussion with a friend not too long ago about why the Plame scandal matters. Was special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spending too much time, causing too much chaos, just for a little leak investigation?
My response is that this investigation matters not just because of the literal crimes that may have occurred, but because it's about the lengths that this administration went to to justify the war in Iraq. The lies surrounding what Scooter Libby and Karl Rove may or may not have known and said may, in a narrow context, be small lies. But they go to the heart of the matter: That this White House was trying to sell a war for illegitimate reasons, and it was willing to break the law and smear its critics to do so.
And now we know that the vice-president is involved. The chickens are coming home to roost.
I don't think there can be any question that this investigation matters. Who knows, now, where it will take us? I, for one, can't wait for
Robert Sam Anson's biography of Dick Cheney....
