Reply #20: How can you tell someone in Junior's Admin is lying?

[bcbarrett]

His/her lips are moving...

I think the scandal goes deeper and higher than Rove. It's hard for me to fathom Judith Miller willingly going to prison for contempt to protect a source who has been exposed. It doesn't make sense so there's a larger target higher up in the food chain. There's only a couple of people higher up in the Administration so it may go all the way up to Cheney, who does have a habit of talking out of school. It's unlikely junior leaked it himself because he rarely speaks directly to the press.

Rove may just be the sacrificial lamb being offered to shut everyone up and protect the bigger guy closer to the top. After all he did his job by making sure junior got re-elected and even after this scandal he can make millions lobbying provided he doesn't end up in jail, which of course junior will make sure he never sees the inside of a Bureau of Prisons facility.

It makes sense when you look at it like a game of chess; junior is sacrificing a bishop to save his queen.