October 12, 2005

Scooter is Toast

Vice President Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby sure looks like he obstructed justice to me. Another instance of the cover up being worse than the crime (if any):

In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New York Times reporter Judith Miller in June 2003 about the operative, Valerie Plame, according to sources with firsthand knowledge of his sworn testimony.

Libby also did not disclose the June 23 conversation when he was twice interviewed by FBI agents working on the Plame leak investigation, the sources said.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald apparently learned about the June 23 conversation for the first time just days ago, after attorneys for Miller and The New York Times informed prosecutors that Miller had discovered a set of notes on the conversation.

Tom Maguire sees nothing good for Libby in this. It's either "bad" or "really bad."

"Libby Did Not Tell Grand Jury About Key Conversation" [via Balloon Juice]