Slim Libby pickings

This Roger Aronoff & Cliff Kincaid report (here) accurately describes the Libby trial for what it is: Chapter Umpteen in the Media's persistent campaign to discredit the Bush Administration.

Here's a sample quote from the article:

All of this ["sensational developments" like talk of "sacrificial lambs"] is interesting but largely beside the point. What Libby and Rove and others were doing was rebutting Wilson's false charges, while passing along information about his wife working at the CIA and being behind his trip to Africa on behalf of the Agency. Numerous conversations were held with various journalists, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with any of this. It happens all the time. The difference was that this was a conservative administration dealing with a hostile liberal press. Cheney and Libby knew full well that Wilson's accusations, published in the New York Times, could affect public opinion. They had to fight back.

I encourage you to read the whole thing for an overview of the case.