So I'm doing a little 'clicking and of course get to pass through the minefield that is that of liberal blogs. Piles upon piles of them of course (though, hmm, I thought that blogs were tools of the VRC - vast rightwing conspiracy - and not of the mainstream, but I digress). Many with gleeful headlines and new entries about the downfall of Libby, and how this is just the beginning.
One (the name doesn't matter, much like the DU site, you can't swing an electronic pen without hitting one of them) has ponderings about how this is just the start that will lead to Cheney. Cheney will be taken down, as Libby is just a small fish, and Cheney is the big one that Fitzgerald was really after.
I'm gonna call B.S. on those theories here and now. Regardless of what wishful thinking any of the liberals out there wish to engage in, I think if Fitzgerald had anything else to use, it would be out there now. Yeah, he has the opportunity to go before another grand jury. "The jury is still open" (technically), but for all intents and purposes, much like Martha Stewart, the case is over and done. Fitzgerald has one fall guy, and only one fall guy, to hang for the outting of Valerie Plame. (Though he could just as easily have taken Joe Wilson, and Ms. Plame herself as the ones that gave up her history.)
He has I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Libby will take the fall, or perhaps never even have to. Not because he'll be pardoned for the crime (which may yet happen if he were found guilty), but because Libby knows the game that is being played here. He knows that even if someone else is guilty, that bigger fish, so to say, that the end result must not, can not, and never will be that anyone other than one sacrificial lamb will go down for the event.
Even if Libby were offered immunity tomorrow in exchange for testifying against his boss or anyone else in the administration, it's pretty obvious that he won't do it. He'll become a martyr, go off professing his innocence, and claiming this was all part of a witch hunt. He'll head off into the sunset not to be heard from again until years later when a book on his experience in the White House and his time as the fall guy of an administration can be written and sold.
Some may believe I'm wrong. Many may hope I'm wrong (many of the DU crowd apparently would hope so), but I think they are fooling themselves if they think otherwise. But that's just my opinion and I could be... nah. Not gonna happen. Mark my words.
