Fox's Cavuto picks up Hutchison's "Scooter is Martha" talking point!

The Cover-Up, Not the Crime
Friday, October 28, 2005
By Neil Cavuto

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173871,00.html

Think quickly: What do Martha Stewart (search) and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (search) have in common? Well, at least based on the "charges" against Libby, not a crime — but covering up a crime.

When you obstruct justice, the idea is you are obstructing getting at the truth.

That's why the problem for Martha wasn't that she might have sold stock in a company based on inside information — that stock sale never came up — only that she might have tried to cover her tracks long after the sale was made.

It's the same thing that brought down Richard Nixon (search) — not a break-in into Democratic National Committee headquarters, but the administration's efforts subsequently to cover up all activity "since" that break-in. For Libby, the issue is whether he lied about what he did "after" the fact. Again, it's not so much whether he did or did not reveal a CIA operative's name, but if he obstructed justice by impeding the investigation into whether he did.

Maybe Libby should get this guy to be his lawyer or something.

Bushass kisser Cavuto is

worst of the worst?

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