Cheney and Libby - the Revenge Seekers: WaPo's Gellman and Linzer Outshine VandeHei and Smith

THIS is the front page story the wapo should have run in place of yesterday's disgraceful affront to journalism...

A 'Concerted Effort' to Discredit Bush Critic

Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story

By Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 9, 2006; Page A01

As he drew back the curtain this week on the evidence against Vice President Cheney's former top aide, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time described a "concerted action" by "multiple people in the White House" -- using classified information -- to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" a critic of President Bush's war in Iraq.

Bluntly and repeatedly, Fitzgerald placed Cheney at the center of that campaign. Citing grand jury testimony from the vice president's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Fitzgerald fingered Cheney as the first to voice a line of attack that at least three White House officials would soon deploy against former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.

for god's sake, let's stop pretending that bush and his criminal white house gang have anything but their own interests at heart and that they will do anything, no matter how vile, to see them achieved...

what i would like to know, however, is where rove stands in this latest revelation... karl has a very distinctive odor about him, not unlike the family dog after an encounter with a skunk, and the air around both libby and cheney is positively thick with it...

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