Rove, White House spokesman get subpoenas, trots
Grublike svengali Karl Rove and communications director Dan Bartlett have received subpoenas to testify for the defense at the trial of WH fallguy Scooter Libby.
Potential witnesses for the government include "Whatever You Say, Mr Vice President!" host Tim "squeee!" Russert; Judith Miller, former WH propaganda minister to the New York Times; and our old friend, former White House press secretary Ari "the Liar" Fleischer.The subpoenas make it clearer than ever that Libby's defense team will seek to put the Bush administration and its policies on trial.
"This is obviously primarily about the guilt or innocence of the defendant," former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC News. "But in a larger sense, it's going to be an examination and perhaps even a trial about how this administration has conducted itself on matters of national security and on Iraq, specifically."
Libby's witness list is even more impressive, as it includes a sitting - and possibly armed - vice president:
Dick Cheney
Karl Rove
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell
Former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage
George Tenet, former CIA director
Incontinent traitor Bob Novak
John McLaughlin, director of central intelligence
Stephen Hadley, national security advisor
Washington Post contributor and author of My Life and Times at George Bush's Cock, Bob Woodward
It was also disclosed this week that Cheney wrote a note that Libby's defense argues shows that Libby was a scapegoat.
"Not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy who was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder," Cheney wrote.
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