One count of obstruction, two counts of perjury and one count of lying to the FBI.
So we were sitting around the office, trying to figure out a local angle for the breaking news that Scooter Libby has just been found guilty in the CIA leak trial.
As a service to our readers, we wanted to let y’all know about the important news, but we’re a local paper, see, so our posts are supposed to have some sort of a local angle. So we sat around, tapping our heads like Winnie the Pooh, trying to think of how the White House’s attempts to discredit its critics in the run-up to the Iraq War had anything to do with Houston.
And then it hit us.
Anyway, Scooter Libby was found guilty. Now you know. — Keith Plocek
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2007.
