Grrrrrr. Every move this president makes is designed to infuriate me (as well as any fan of checks and balances).

Quoted: President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term on Monday, issuing an order that commutes his sentence.

Libby's testimony on the Valerie Plame case is implicating people all the way up to the top. How can George W. Bush tell the public that he wants the source of the leak found when he knows that he and his closest staff were the ones responsible?

Quoted: Libby's testimony shows that Bush disclosed national secrets for political gain -- and makes Bush's statements about finding the leaker ludicrous.

Yikes. A pretty scathing indictment of Cheney and Libby and the entire Bush administration. It lays out in great detail what was known and when it was known prior to the war in Iraq.

The testimony in the Libby trial had people with first-hand knowledge testify to this effect.

It is now becoming clear that there was a concerted effort to discredit Joseph Wilson and Inspector Albright prior to the war. Cheney had staff dig up dirt on both of them. Wonder why we did not hear much from these folks at the time? They were muzzled.

Seriously, this makes me so angry every time I look into it. When all of this smoke clears, I hope we get an accurate indication of how everything played out. One thing I am fairly certain now, material facts were covered up when explaining the rationale for going to war to the American people. That makes the actual reason for war moe insidious and meddlesome.

The Libby indictment straight from Fitzgerald's website. This is a pdf.