Cheney and Plamegate

A friend of mine emailed me about my blog. He expressed some curiousity about Cheney's role in this Plame business, so here is my off-the-cuff response on Cheney and Plamegate...

My understanding of the Cheney situation is this: He is a cold-hearted war profiteer with a robotic heart. Oh, Plamegate? In regards to his 'Plamegate' role, he appears to be the true target of the probe. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is smart enough to know that that 'Scooter' Libby and others (even Rove) didn't wake up one morning and go "OMG, I could totally discredit Wilson by outing his wife!11!!". Nor did they have the intelligence clearance to possess the knowledge of her identity and work. So the marching orders obviously came from higher up and lord knows Bush is too stupid to think of it. So that points to Cheney, who masterminds everything from his lair thousands of feet below the White House. Likely Libby and Rove will be indicted- for conspiracy and whatnot, obstruction, perjury- fun stuff like that. But the true target is Cheney; specifically, what role did he play in this conspiracy. If it heats up, would Cheney resign? I'd like to think that he would, if just to take the heat off of President Bush (like Agnew did, except that didn't exactly save Nixon). This would leave Bush free to appoint a less-polarizing VP and Cheney would, of course, still control Bush via telephone from home. Of course, if Cheney is cooperating now (this is all iffy), he is likely scared of this scenario and is trying to save himself. It's also my theory that the reason President Bush put John Roberts as Chief Justice (instead of regular Justice) and why he wants his favorite fangirl Harriet Miers on the Court, is (in case it goes as high up as him and we have another US v. Nixon situation), he too is trying to protect himself. Basically, it comes down to this- these people can't govern to save their lives, but they sure know how to cover their own asses.

'Honor and integrity' in the George W. Bush era.

See also:
Cheney may be target of probe