Hey, Team Libby…

Great three-part series by Christy Hardin Smith (aka) Reddhedd over at FireDogLake on Plamegate, a topic she has "owned" for some time and for which FDL won a Koufax.

Check out Parts I, II, III .

Conclusion:

Bottom line here: George Bush jumped the shark with all of his public protestations about leakers being bad — because his sureptitious attempt to plant stories via Judy Miller through a Scooter Libby who clearly was trying to hide his identity behind a "former Hill staffer" attribution far away from the WH makes Bush look like a weasel. A weasel who has been pointing fingers at his critics, at the press, at everyone — but hasn’t taken any responsiblity on himself for his own mistakes, and his cherry-picking of intelligence that he used to lie our way into war with Iraq.

President Bush been exposed as a snake oil salesman, whose holier than thou attitude about leakers was designed to hide the fact that — all along — he’s been pulling the strings behind the scenes as the Leaker-in-Chief.

And, fyi, there was no denial at all from the WH today that anything Libby said in testimony was untrue. Steve Soto has more on this at Left Coaster. The WaPo has more on this as well.

The question now is — do they turn the machine on Libby, or will he be willing to turn it back on them to save his own hide? Did I say game on?