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Originally Posted by ratbastid
It's not the outing that's the problem. I mean... that's obviously a problem, but the MUCH bigger problem is the cover-up. THAT'S what Libby was part of. Libby might have had nothing at all to do personally with the leak, that's entirely beside the point. Libby personally acted repeatedly to withhold the truth from the investigation and the American people. That's his crime. That crime, by all federal sentencing guidelines, carries jail time. Unless, apparently, you have a friend in the White House (who may or may not have been behind your cover-up activities).
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Of course you are right that whether Libby was personally involved is not the point.
Just to be clear about it: Fact is, he was personally involved. He was Judy Miller's source. She rotted in jail for months before he released her from her confidentiality agreement. That's the whole reason she is free, because she named her source, and it was Libby.
The fact that she didn't actually RUN with the info that Plame was a covert agent with the CIA is besides the point. Libby violated national security. He committed treason against this country, by outing a covert agent in this nations employ. That he was hoping that she would help him disseminate this information to the entire world is just icing on the treason cake.
Powerclown: Read the above, that response clears up the fact that Libby was intimately involved as well. Just because his reporter wasn't completely lacking morals like Rove's is besides the point.
As to why Fitzgerald couldn't convict Rover or Armitage or even Libby for the breach of National Security. I just don't know.
Likely that everyone was lying and only Libby was stupid enough to lie about things that Fitzgerald could prove otherwise.