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COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
It's a good thing that you're unlikely to be approached by a small, inquisitive child who wants an explanation of the trial of Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice-President Cheney's former chief of staff, because what would you say? The trial has the air of a proxy prosecution of the Bush Administration, but its outcome won't have any effect on the White House. Libby's legal tormentor, Patrick Fitzgerald, a special prosecutor from Chicago, has a reputation as a tormentor of the Washington press corps. (He put one prominent reporter in jail and threatened to lock up another.) Yet, given that we think of the press and the White House as opposing forces, it's difficult to wrap our minds around the notion of them being in the dock together.
What's ultimately behind Libby's trial is the Administration's obsession with finding hard evidence for...
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