[There You Go Again]

I do agree that Libby should be charged if he knowingly lied under oath. (Sounds like he may have, but that is what a trial is for.)

What confounds me is why he would have lied under oath. (Again, if he indeed did.) I can only believe he thought he was protecting V.P. Cheney. He must have erroneously thought that V.P. Cheney could have been charged with outing a CIA agent. But, I wonder how an intelligent lawyer could not see that such a charge would not apply in Valerie Plame's case. I don't know, but I do wonder what the thinking was......

[lugsoul]

Regardless of whether Plame fit the IIPA definition, it is plainly obvious that Libby knew that her employment status was classified information (secure phone line, anyone?). He didn't want to admit he gave that info to reporters. He could, at a minimum, lose his clearance for doing so, which would pretty much end him as CoS.

So he lied. Like a child. And he got caught.