news running around in circles
You know… once upon a time, years ago when the Vallerie Plame Leak Scandal first broke (to be smoldered a way for a while, to erupt again, to be smoldered again sometime soon, to erupt again sometime a bit later)…
The now-defunct cable television show Buchanan and Press was meandering on with Pat Buchanan trying to get some expert who claimed to know that it was Scooter Libby who was the “source” to Bob Novak:
BUCHANAN: … let me follow up because I worked in the EOB and to be honest, the president of the United States had his hide-away office on the first-you know the first floor where he goes up the steps. Right above him in that magnificent office up there are the suite of offices of the vice president of the United States whose chief of staff is Mr. Libby…
PRESS: Scooter.
BUCHANAN: … Scooter Libby. Now, is Scooter Libby the name you heard?
JOHNSON: I’m not going to comment on that.
PRESS: Let me ask you this. Today at the White House gaggle they call it, press secretary Scott McClellan was pushed about have-you know ” have you talked to people, are the White House staff cooperating? And remember the other day he said he talked to Karl Rove, and Karl Rove said I had nothing to do with it. So a reporter said have you talked to Scott-Scooter Libby the same-in the same fashion, and are you willing to say right now, ready to say right now that Scooter Libby had nothing to do with this? Scott McClellan closed the briefing, didn’t answer the question, and walked away. What does that tell you?
JOHNSON: That’s very telling. I think if I’m the FBI, I start by having a discussion with Mr. Libby.
At around the same time Joseph Wilson said
“At the end of the day, it’s of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words.”
We’ve gone through 2 years, and we’re pretty much back to the revelation that, with a great deal of fog thrown out, obfuscation and misdirections…
Scooter Libby and Karl Rove are the culpable ones in this case.
Good to know that.