"Martin Baxter" wrote
The latest crap with "Scooter" reminds me of the Abu Ghraib folly,
punish the little guy but not the Machiavellian brains behind the
operation. Who was the boy wonder in the CIA that decided that Dick
Cheney had the need to know the names of any covert operatives? Why did
Dick then decide that his Chief of Staff needed this name?

It would be a mistake to lable Libby one of the "little guys". He is a
novelist, obviously quite adept at making fiction seem plausible. Think of
him as the Jo. Gobbles of the Bush Administration, the man who ran the
propaganda campaign that got us into the Iraq war. He did this by
publishing unfounded and unproven intel reports attributed to CIA which
later proved false (Like Abu Atta meeting with Iraqi intel to plan 9/11).
One was that Saddam was trying to aquire radioactive materials from Africa.
It didn't matter when CIA checked it out and found it false too - what
mattered was that the agent "leaked" the truth to the press damaging
Scooter's propaganda campaign. So he outed the guys wife to punish them.