(Scooter) The sources of a source

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Good article, here (the Matalin quote is unintentionally HYSTERICAL): http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/23/the_sources_of_a_source_scooter?mode=PF

Whatever the outcome, the investigation has focused new attention on the role of the vice president and his top aides in the run-up to the war in Iraq. That has led to broader questions about Libby's involvement with the so-called White House Iraq Group, which came up with strategies to justify the war. The inquiry has raised questions about whether the strategy included leaking classified information.

It is just the kind of attention Libby has strived to avoid in his tours of high-level public service. In contrast to Karl Rove, the Bush deputy chief of staff and political adviser, who also is under investigation in the leak case, Libby has tried to stay anonymous.

His ambition has been to be ''so opaque you can't tell he is there," said Jackson Hogen, who is a longtime Libby friend.

Mary Matalin, who worked with Libby at the White House, said Libby has been unfairly caricatured as an ideologue trying to shape policy. She said he ''is more than a chief of staff to the vice president. Scooter does to the vice president what the vice president does to the president. Cheney trusts him explicitly, completely." MORE AT LINK