The Bush administration is one of the most corrupt and morally bankrupt administrations in U.S. history. How some people continue to get up and defend these dirtbags day after day, is beyond revolting.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top White House officials tried to blame vice presidential aide "Scooter" Libby for the 2003 leak of a CIA operative's identity to protect President Bush's political strategist, Karl Rove, Libby's defense attorney said Tuesday as his perjury trial began. (emphasis mine)

I. Lewis Libby is accused of lying to FBI agents, who began investigating after syndicated columnist Robert Novak revealed that a chief Bush administration critic, Joseph Wilson, was married to CIA operative Valerie Plame.

When the leak investigation was launched, White House officials cleared Rove of wrongdoing but stopped short of doing so for Libby. Libby, who had been asked to counter Wilson's criticisms, felt betrayed and sought out his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, Wells said. (Watch why jurists were asked about Vice President Cheney Video)

"They're trying to set me up. They want me to be the sacrificial lamb," attorney Theodore Wells said, recalling Libby's end of the conversation. "I will not be sacrificed so Karl Rove can be protected."

Rove was one of two sources for Novak's story. The other was then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Nobody, including Rove and Armitage, has been charged with the leak. Libby is accused of lying to investigators and obstructing the probe into the leak.

Cheney's notes from that meeting underscore Libby's concern, Wells said.

"Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy that was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder," the note said, according to Wells.

The description of the White House infighting was a rare glimpse into the secretive workings of Bush's inner circle. It also underscores how hectic and stressful the White House had become when the probe was launched.

By pointing the finger at Rove, whom he referred to as "the lifeblood of the Republican party," Wells sought to cast Libby as a scapegoat.

"He is an innocent man and he has been wrongly and unjustly and unfairly accused," Wells said.

To all my friends on the right who tried to say that Rove was vindicated... Shame on you, and shame on this administration for the web of lies that they have wove, since BEFORE taking office. But it's all coming home to roost. Even the Republicans are abandoning Bush on Iraq. And the Press, so long a tool for this administration, whipped into being so by YOU, are being forced to see the truth.

Let me make a prediction....

Bush will go down in History as the worst President in History, and YOU, all of you, will live with the shame of your shameless cheerleading for an administration that is responsible for heinous crimes... Your obsession with Bill Clinton's blow job seems pathetic in the face of this historical disaster...

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Posted by: Joe Tobacco at January 23, 2007 07:08 PM