[jyl]

The trial of Libby is going to be interesting, in a eavesdrop-on-the-ugly-fight-between-the couple-who-lives-next-door kind of way.

His defense is that aides in the White House were trying to frame Libby as the leaker, in order to protect Karl Rove. I think (read somewhere?) that Cheney will be called to testify in support.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/23/national/w091455S14.DTL

White House officials tried to sacrifice vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to protect strategist Karl Rove from blame for leaking a CIA operative's identity during a political storm over the Iraq war, Libby's lawyer said Tuesday.

After Libby complained "they want me to be the sacrificial lamb," Vice President Dick Cheney personally intervened to get the White House press secretary to publicly clear Libby in the leak, defense attorney Theodore Wells said in his opening statement at Libby's perjury trial.