Washington post
just laid out the reasons why Libby will have to testify.
The senior White House aide was in seclusion over the weekend at his McLean home with his wife and two grade-school-age children trying, as one friend said, "to put one foot in front of the other,"
Two school age children? in seclusion over the weekend? I don't care who you are, the minute you start thinking about the welfare of your family suddenly your priorities change. Dick Cheney, I would be worried.
If not seeing your family wasn't enough, then there is this,
But at least two close friends worried that the legal battle facing Libby would wipe him out financially.
"It takes a lot of dough to deal with this, and I would
not characterize him as wealthy," said Jackson Hogan, a friend from Andover and Yale. "It wouldn't take too long to empty the family's coffers with legal bills."
And on Friday, the man who friends insist was honored to serve for all the right reasons was forced to resign his $161,000 job as the vice president's chief of staff
Libby you can either fall on your sword to protect Cheney and hope they take care of your family when you're in prison or you can be a key witness against Cheney and make millions of dollars in book deals. What's it going to be?
I think your "longtime friend" answered the question.
"Despite what you read, Scooter Libby is not an ideologue," said another longtime friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "He was very much a pragmatist."
It is for this reason that those who know him are astonished that a quiet guy who writes fiction and is interested in poetry, and who strove to stay under the radar screen, is now viewed as a guy who talked too much to reporters, and who concocted a story to cover up his role in the revealing of Plame
This was Fitzgerald's plan all along. He obviously knows Libby is the gate keeper to prosecuting the real crime and criminals, and he knew how to put Libby in a corner. The key was Judith Miller she nailed the lid on Libby's coffin, more likely Cheney's. Libby, Fitzgerald, Miller all knew that and Fitzgerald outmanuevered them. Fitzgerald is obviously very good at his job.