COMMENT The Bush White House seems to specialise in tortured political dramas that are impenetrable to those who live outside the Washington Beltway – not to mention around the world. The Libby affair, which resulted on Tuesday in the conviction of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former top White House official, on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, is more opaque than most.
Even the prosecutor in the case has called it a “he-said, he-said, she-said, he-said, he-said, she-said, he-said, he-said, he-said” case. Most Americans, even those whose dismay at the turn of events in Iraq grows by the day, showed little interest in who said what to whom, in this convoluted saga of journalists and White House aides and unmasked CIA agents and lies about the Iraq war.
