Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation of the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. He was acquitted of one count of being a bullshitter to the FBI. Technically, he’s looking at 30 years at the Crowbar Hotel, but reality says that ain’t gonna happen.
The backstory is easy enough, Irving was Shotgun Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff and told a bunch of media wanks that Valerie Plame was a CIA spook to put the arm on her hubby, Ambassador Joe Wilson to play ball with the whole yellowcake-Saddam Has Nukes fantasy novel. Then he lied his face off about it.
The jury came back with guilty on three of four charges after a few days of deliberations. By happenstance, Shotgun Dick is in hospital with a blood clot in his leg. As of right about now, Shotgun Dick is doing a limping, shuffling happy dance that Scooter didn’t do a John Dean and spill his guts about the kind of systematic reality-styling that went on in the Vice-Presidential offices.
Now the stonewall begins. Watch the White House isolate Scooter as a wild-card, off on his own, freelancing data off his desk. Watch Shotgun Dick have to spend a couple of weeks recovering at his Undisclosed Location. Watch Karl Rove start to badmouth Scooter with the right-wing nuts. I’m even waiting for some meatsack like Senator Sam Brownback claim that Libby is being disloyal to the troops.
Stay tuned. This one isn’t over yet.
RoadDave 
They are all a bunch of crooks and I was sickened that he continued to protect the others…Esp. that disgusting Carl Rove.