Pleeeeeeas tell me this is a smoking gun for Shrub on the Plame leak.
I've been following the Liveblog over at Firedog since the Libby trial started.
Yesterday, Libby's attorney shows a Cheney Memo that implicates Bush for protecting Rove over Libby.
Oh, how badly I want this to be the Achilles Heel of Shrub.
Copies of handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney, introduced at trial by defense attorneys for former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, would appear to implicate George W. Bush in the Plame CIA Leak case.
Cheney's notes seem to help bolster Wells's defense strategy. Libby's defense team first discussed the notes - written by Cheney in September 2003 for White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan - during opening statements last week. Wells said Cheney had written "not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy that was asked to stick his head in the meat grinder because of incompetence of others": a reference to Libby being asked to deal with the media and vociferously rebut Wilson's allegations that the Bush administration knowingly "twisted" intelligence to win support for the war in Iraq.
I'm surprised though that AbuGonzales slipped up on this. It seems the memo may have just fallen through the cracks during the rush to destroy all of the (really) incriminating stuff when the investigations first began.
This needs legs. Go read entire piece from Jason Leopold and Marc Ash. Defense exhibit memo posted as well. Posted at Truthout.org.
Thanks to Jabberwonk for the link.