Cheney, media to take stand in Libby perjury case

Cheney, media to take stand in Libby perjury case
Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:04am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The perjury trial of former White House official Lewis "Scooter" Libby begins on Tuesday, but the investigation has already laid bare the Bush administration's internal workings and damaged the independence of the news media.

Vice President Dick Cheney is among the prominent government officials and journalists expected to testify in a case that will examine the White House and the Washington press corps as the nation went to war in Iraq in 2003.

The case began as an effort to determine who blew the cover of a CIA operative whose husband criticized the Bush administration's use of intelligence before the invasion.


Nobody has been charged with that crime, but Libby resigned as Cheney's former chief of staff when he was charged with lying to a grand jury and the FBI during the investigation.

more at:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-23T123533Z_01_N18201133_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-CRIME-LIBBY.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C2-TopNews-newsOne-5

and how he's damaged the independence of the media and has compromised himself by not prosecuting Richard Armitage.

And I'm left wondering, "Wha?..."