The Talented Mr. Libby

In response to his Chief of Staff's indictment and immediate resignation, Dick Cheny did not flinch. Today's New York Times reports,

Mr. Cheney, who was in Georgia, issued a statement calling Mr. Libby "one of the most capable and talented individuals I have ever known."

According to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald -- who has been investigating the Bush administration for 22 months in relation to a leak that led to the illegal exposure of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame -- I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby applies his considerable talents to smearing American citizens for speaking their minds. And then he lies about it.

Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush will send over 2000 American men and women to their deaths in a hostile land in order to spread democracy. They will defend the right to speak out, practice freedom, and exercise God's Great Gifts (GGG).

But if you criticize an Administration bent on going to war for unfounded reasons, as Joseph Wilson did, your family and reputation are in serious danger of becoming the focus of hard work and hours of focused calculation in the offices of the Vice President. The VEEP and his staff are going to burn some serious U.S. taxpayer dollars trying to figure out how to make you look very, very bad.

Talk about Homeland Security: if you want to see how domestic terrorism works, just watch as Fitzgerald's proceedings unravel the web of retribution Cheney enacted upon Wilson and his wife.

We've been playing the Plame-Game all summer. Now newspaper readers nationwide will have a reason to study timelines and muddle through the tangled machinations of Bush's overextended war cabal.

What do you think?

Chew the fat; speak out. But beware the VEEP.