The Irony of Libby's Indictment

Scooter Libby was indicted and has resigned. After reading the indictment, the two-year investigation boils down to this: when questioned by the Special Prosecutor's office, Libby told FBI agents that he didn't know Valerie Plame was a CIA agent when reporters asked him. Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, claims he did know she was a CIA agent.

The ironic thing is that the reporter who was the catalyst for this big investigation, Walter Pincus of the Washington Post, wrote an article questioning those "sixteen words" in Bush's State of the Union address about uranium yellowcake. This article was based on Joe Wilson's report to the CIA (later determined to be false) - a classified report which was leaked to the press! (But this was not the leak being investigated.)

Assuming Libby is convicted (which is still a big "if" in my opinion), he would share something in common with our 42nd President of the U.S. (Perhaps he can use that as his defense...)