Willam Rivers Pitt says this on Truthout:
"Libby was part of a White House plot to discredit Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose early criticism of the administration's Iraq claims were deemed a grave threat to the policy. The White House attacked Wilson by exposing his wife, Valerie Plame, as a deep-cover CIA operative. This exposure destroyed the intelligence network she had created to track any person, nation or group that might give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists. Libby lied under oath and obstructed justice to cover up these White House activities, and to protect Vice President Dick Cheney from scrutiny and censure for his direct role in the plot." (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070307R.shtml)
He's not the only one. Many sources are saying, in so many words, that the Bush administration and its lackeys have _broken the law_. Many are saying they've undermined the Constitution of the US, _which they are sworn to defend_. (The VP isn't part of the Executive branch? Come ON, people! Pull the other one, it's got bells on.)
I don't see _anyone_ defending any of them. I don't even see them defending themselves. Why might that be? Seems to me, if these nincompoops weren't guilty of what they're being accused, slander suits would be flying all over creation. They can't sue anyone, of course, because that would require them to present actual evidence that they're innocent.