For Cheney, Political Toll May Follow Libby Verdict
by SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
March 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, March 6 — "In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case. In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment..."
"For weeks, Washington watched, mesmerized, as the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. cast Vice President Cheney, his former boss, in the role of puppeteer, pulling the strings in a covert public relations campaign to defend the Bush administration’s case for war in Iraq and discredit a critic.
“'There is a cloud over the vice president,' the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, told the jury in summing up the case last month..." more ...
"The truth is what drives our judicial system. If people don’t come forward and tell the truth, we have no hope of making the judicial system work."
PATRICK J. FITZGERALD, the prosecutor in the Libby case.
To be continued when more is known.
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