Looks like the pardon has affected Libby's thinking processes, and turning up the heat on Cheney & Rove.

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Former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told the FBI that it was "possible" that Vice President Cheney instructed him to disseminate information about CIA agent Valerie Plame to the press, according to a redacted FBI report recently examined by Congressional investigators.

In part as a result of that revelation, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today reiterated its request for more Plame investigation documents -- including reports on the interviews investigators conducted with Cheney and President Bush.

In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Committee Chairman Henry Waxman also writes that "[n]ew revelations by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan raise additional questions about the actions of the President and the Vice President. Mr. McClellan has stated that '[t]he President and Vice President directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby.' He has also asserted that 'the top White House officials who knew the truth -- including [Karl] Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney -- allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie.' It would be a major breach of trust if the Vice President personally directed Mr. McClellan to mislead the public."

Back in December, I wrote about how special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald had agreed to give congressional investigators key documents from his investigation into the leak -- until the White House intervened. Waxman then asked the newly-installed attorney general to show some independence from his White House masters and release the documents. Committee investigators were eventually allowed to read redacted versions of the reports on interviews with senior administration officials, including Libby and Rove, but not Cheney or Bush.

Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice last year after repeatedly denying that he had told reporters about Plame's identity. Prosecutors presented evidence that he had done precisely that, as part of a coordinated White House campaign to discredit Plame's husband Joe Wilson, an administration critic. Fitzgerald even indicated that he had been hot on Cheney's trail until that line of investigation was cut off by Libby's repeated lies.

As I wrote in a February 2007 column, an FBI agent testified at the trial that Libby said he and Cheney may have discussed in July 2003 "whether to report to the press that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA."

That Libby also told the FBI it was possible that Cheney actually instructed him to do so would seem to go beyond what we already knew. It was in phone calls placed immediately after the conversation in question that Libby mentioned Valerie Plame for a third time to Judith Miller, then of the New York Times, and spoke with Matt Cooper, then of Time Magazine. According to Cooper, it was during that phone call that Libby confirmed that Plame had been involved in her husband's trip -- an allegation Cooper had first heard from Karl Rove.

Dan Froomkin - Did Cheney Tell Libby to Do It? - washingtonpost.com

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When I think of the outing of Plame, I think of vindictiveness, and that sounds like the big Dick to me. And when I think of the Bush white house, I think of their stone walling at level worst that Watergate and their disgusting usurping of power.

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It feels like we've pivoted and have changed direction in this country. I think we might start seeing some real justice finally take place in regard to the Bush/Cheney crimes.

Not as long as Pelosi is Speaker of the House.

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Except that Plame was "outed" by Richard Armitage, unless he is the big Dick you're referring to.

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He was just the first, in the span of time. But she was outted by several, and they all lead back to Cheney. Rove and Libby also told reporters classified information - the name of a covert CIA agent. They are all guilty of treason.

Not likely for a while, anyway... once the democrats regain the white house... maybe then... But I don't think impeachment of Bush/Cheney has a snowball's chance in hell, especially since both will be out of office in a tad over 8 months..

imprisonment for treason though, once the democrats are in power, that is.... might have a better chance...

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There isn't enough time left regardless of who is the speaker of the house and besides... with the obstructionist republicans voting like the true partisdans they are, there'd be no chance of obtaining one anyway...

The next congress, with decidedly more democrats in it than now, might be able to pull it off...

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