GUILTY ON FOUR OF FIVE. Libby has apparently been found guilty of four of five counts, including the obstruction of justice charge. I will have more to say about this, of course, but given the way Fitzgerald raised the stakes in his closing rebuttal, the main consequence beyond the obvious legal consequences for Libby is that the cloud of suspicion over Vice President Cheney darkens. Fitzgerald suggested in his closing both that Cheney directed Libby to blow Plame's cover to Judith Miller in summer 2003 and that the vice president countenanced an expressed intention on Libby's part to lie to investigators in fall 2003. Barring more legal pursuit of Cheney, which Murray Waas has reported is a real possibility, Cheney's own course of action in response to that darkened cloud over him is likely to be ... nothing. So the question becomes, what are the rest of us supposed to do about that? Presumably, we look to Congress.
--Jeff Lomonaco
