From: georgek@aol.com   
      
   Joe Conason: Role of the Big Guys Is Becoming Clear in Plame Case   
   At long last, the fog of mystification generated by the Bush   
   administration and the Washington media is lifting, so that everyone can   
   see clearly why I. Lewis ³Scooter² Libby is on trial and why his   
   prosecution is important. Whether or not the jury eventually finds the   
   former White House aide guilty of perjury, the evidence shows that his   
   bosses, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, have misled the public from the   
   very beginning about the vengeful leaking of Valerie Plame Wilson¹s CIA   
   identity.   
      
   The question that now hangs over the president and the vice president is   
   whether they lied to special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald‹the same crime   
   for which their fall guy, Scooter, now faces possible imprisonment.   
   According to published reports, the special counsel interviewed both   
   Bush and Cheney during the summer of 2004. The only way for them to   
   dispel the suspicion that they may have lied to him is to permit full   
   disclosure of those interviews.   
      
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   "There's been nothing ‹ absolutely nothing ‹ brought to our attention to   
   suggest any White House involvement," said Scott McClellan, then the   
   presidential press secretary, in attempting to cover Karl Rove and the   
   rest of the White House staff with a blanket exoneration.   
      
   We have long since learned otherwise. We know, for instance, that Rove,   
   Libby and former presidential press secretary Ari Fleischer were all   
   involved in leaking Ms. Wilson¹s identity to the media. We also know   
   that Libby, by his own testimony, learned about her CIA identity from   
   the vice president. They had hoped to discredit Joe Wilson by hinting at   
   nepotism in his CIA-sponsored trip to Niger to gather information about   
   alleged uranium trading with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. (Actually, he   
   undertook the difficult journey to that unprepossessing nation as a   
   public service, without pay.) In short, we know that top officials in   
   the Bush White House were behind the campaign to smear the Wilsons.   
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