The Libby Case: Waiting for Cheney
Anyone can be forgiven for losing track of what's going on in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby. After all, it's about who told what to whom and when. The fact that a covert CIA operative's name was leaked to the pressas it turns out, inadvertently by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitageis not even the matter at hand, although it was the reason a special counsel was appointed in the first place.
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Gloria Borger, a contributing editor at U.S.News & World Report, writes the magazine's On Politics column. Borger is also the national political correspondent for CBS and a regular panelist on the PBS public affairs program, Washington Week in Review. Borger is a 1974 graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and is now a member of the university's board of trustees.