The letters that people wrote to help influence Libby's sentence were released. The Washington Post says Letters Cast Light on Cheney's Inner Circle though I don't see too much of that. The two that stuck out for me:
"John R. Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador, wrote of how 'information flowed across his desk on a daily basis like water coming out of a high-pressure fire hydrant, with more demands for action than could humanly be met. In the face of all these demands, keeping every detail straight is impossible,' Bolton wrote." Isn't keeping all the details straight the job of the chief of staff? And we're not talking details here, we're talking about the justification for war. The office certainly had enough time to go after one little New York Times op-ed.
"Former ambassador and White House aide Robert D. Blackwill called Libby a 'crucial voice' in President Bush's decision to accelerate transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqis after the ouster of Saddam Hussein. 'Sadly I believe that Mr. Libby's premature departure from the Administration has been a major reason for the downward spiral of the situation in Iraq and the consuming mess in which we find ourselves today regarding that country,' he wrote." Riiiiight. Actually I think that failure has more to do with Blackwill himself who was "one of the White House's most trusted architects of the Iraq reconstruction policy"
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