Another Libby trial update!

The spokeswoman for Vice President Dick Cheney told a jury Thursday that she informed Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., that the wife of a prominent critic of the invasion of Iraq worked for the CIA days before Libby contended he heard the information from a reporter.

Cathie Martin, who was Cheney's chief spokeswoman, was the fourth witness for the prosecution in the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of Libby, who is charged with lying during an investigation of who leaked the name of the CIA operative, Valerie Plame Wilson, and why. Unlike the previous three witnesses, who worked at the CIA and State Department, Martin provided an insider's perspective, one from directly inside the office of the vice president.

The perspective she laid out under questioning from a federal prosecutor was damaging to Libby. She testified that both Cheney and Libby were intensely interested in Wilson and her husband, Joseph Wilson, who had been sent on a mission to Africa to investigate reports that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger for his nuclear weapons program.

Now that my friends is a real slam dunk!

Now none of this is a surprise to any of us who followed the Plame scandal with a rabid fascination. Which I did.

What is surprising is how fast that Libby, and his boss Dick Cheney, have been shown to be liars. There is no longer any doubt that they lied to the media, they lied to the American people, and they both probably lied to the investigators. And if Cheney lied to a federal prosecutor he is, what is the word for it, fucked!

Gee I wonder who else might have lied?