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Posted on Wednesday 7 February 2007

Marcy Wheeler [emptywheel], Plamologist Extraordinaire, has an interesting post on The Next Hurrah [also posted on Firedoglake] about Libby’s Great Amnesia period. By analyzing Cheney’s changing Talking Points through the months around the time of the leak, she shows that Joseph Wilson and his wife were certainly never out of Cheney’s mind – if anything, it was an obsession. Wheeler concludes:
Libby may be arguing that he forgot Plame’s identity and learned it as if it were new. But there appears to be a clear continuity in Cheney’s knowledge of Plame’s identity. Which sort of makes Libby’s "as if it were new" claims ring hollow.
My point isn’t about Wheeler’s logic. It’s as impeccable as it always is. My point is that she even has to make the argument in the first place. None of us belive Libby’s contention that he forgot what Cheney told him. I doubt there’s anyone that actually believes what he’s saying is true. I expect that there are plenty of Administration supporters who don’t care that he was actively involved in leaking Plame’s identity, or who think it’s a defense that can’t be shaken, or something like that. But the idea that Cheney’s Chief of Staff wouldn’t know what his boss was obsessed with is simply ludicrous. And then there’s the evidence – any number of people who Libby discussed Plame and her C.I.A. connection with, some of whom who have testified in the trial.

But it’s still not my point. My point is that The Executive Branch of our government is openly lying about what they did in the Plame Affair, openly lying about the fact that they got us into a major war on false pretenses, openly trying to change the very fabric of our government and our country’s way of being in the world, and they are still there – still at it.

Marcy Wheeler does a great job of parsing one of the many lies, lies we are all aware of, but the culprits still occupy the White House and we’re still fighting their war. Fitzgerald is a great prosecutor who has done a magnificent job, but the culprits still occupy the White House and we’re still fighting their war. We elected a new Congress full of Democrats, but the culprits still occupy the White House and we’re still fighting their war. In fact, everybody with any sense is doing a great job, but the culprits still occupy the White House and we’re still fighting their war.

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