Reply #34: We're not talking here about... [View All]

[punpirate]

... drug possession or credit card fraud. We're talking about a small group of people who are highly ideological and fanatical about protecting their cause, their purpose and the people in charge of those, which includes Cheney.

There have been some questions about why Libby would, in the first place, lie about the matter in ways that were so obvious and easy to refute (his conversations with Russert, for example). They were obvious attempts to lead investigators away from Cheney.

Trial opens up all sorts of possibilities for more information to be revealed, something this bunch--as quite practiced in excessive secrecy that they are--would be loathe to see happen.

I'm not saying that it's an inevitability, rather just that it's one more possibility in a range of such, which should not be discounted--especially if there's a presidential pardon waiting in the background. There aren't too many of those floating around the average case in federal court these days....

Cheers.