"If you're looking at legacy..."

but, if you're looking at accountability...? if you're looking at ethics...? if you're looking at criminal offense...?

"This has been a huge cloud over the White House," said Ed Rogers, a Republican lobbyist close to the Bush team. "It caused a lot of intellectual, emotional and political energy to be expended when it should have been expended on the agenda. They're never going to fully recover from this. If you're looking at legacy, this episode gets prominently mentioned in every recap of the Bush administration, much like Iran-contra and Monica Lewinsky."

what the libby case revealed as much or more than anything else, was how much "intellectual, emotional and political energy" was expended on trying to smear your critics to protect yourselves from having the lies you told from being exposed...

of course, leave it to cheney's vicious she-wolf, mary matalin, to put things in their proper context, namely, that the clinton administration was worse...

"Scooter didn't do anything," said former Cheney counselor Mary Matalin. "And his personal record and service are impeccable. How do you make sense of a system where a security principal [former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. Berger] admits to stuffing classified docs in his pants and says, 'I'm sorry,' and a guy who is rebutting a demonstrable partisan liar is going through this madness?"

i just love the way she characterizes joseph wilson as a "demonstrable partisan liar" and the act of smearing him and outing his covert CIA operative wife as mere "rebuttal..."

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