In other words, the Administration reacted to Ambassador Wilson's perfidy-his decision to tell the truth about one aspect of the fictional justifications for the war-like a crew of deskbound Tony Sopranos. Still, Libby's colleagues were more careful than he was. Nobody was charged with violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which requires a specific intent to disclose a secret agent's identity. (Just to be safe, Fleischer demanded-and received-immunity before agreeing to cooperate with Fitzgerald.) No one except Libby was proved to be lying to investigators. And Libby has not said that anyone told him to perjure himself. Still, in a moral sense, if not a legal one, it was clear that the business of discrediting the Wilsons was a group undertaking, and it's therefore easy to see why the jury struggled with laying blame for the whole operation on Libby. One juror, Denis Collins, said after the trial that he agreed with the defense claim that Libby was a "fall guy" for Cheney, among others, but Collins also thought that Libby was guilty; under the circumstances, both conclusions made sense. After the verdict, the Vice-President, as is his custom, wasn't answering questions from the press. Perhaps Congress, if it finally gets around to investigating why the nation went to war under false pretenses four years ago, will have better luck with him.

The most fevered supporters of the war immediately began pressuring the President to pardon Libby...

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