Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, resigned today after a federal grand jury indicted him on five counts of perjury over an investigation into the unmasking of a covert CIA agent. Just as I mentioned in my previous Blog today, this brings president Bush rather in a tight spot. And also his aide Karl Rove (also referred after as “the brains” behind Bush). Although Rove was not charged, the investigation has not been closed. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has accused Mr Libby of lying about how and when he learned and disclosed to reporters classified information about Ms Plame. Libby discussed Plame’s identity in the summer of 2003 with reporters after her husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson, wrote a highly critical op-ed column in The New York Times that challenged intelligence used as a rationale for the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Off course we all know now that the Bush administration – and the Brittish government – lied to the world by just fabricating evidence that tied Irak and Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks on the US. It is a classic case of “Wag the Dog”.
More good information on this story on both the BBC websiteand the CNN website.