Another Libby trial update.

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told a jury today that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff disclosed to him the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame a week before her name surfaced publicly in the press.

Fleischer said he never viewed the information he received about Plame as classified or secret, because the protocol in the White House was that press aides would be warned explicitly when information was classified and could not be used in discussions with reporters.

He testified that neither Libby nor Bartlett gave him any reason to believe that Plame's employment was classified.

"I never in my wildest dreams thought this information would be classified," he said.

Fleischer, who left the White House in mid-July 2003, said that in September, about 2 1/2 months after his conversation with the reporters, he saw a news account that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate a possibly illegal leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.

"I was absolutely horrified to know I had played a role," Fleischer said. "I thought, 'Oh my God. Did I play a role in somehow outing a CIA officer. . . . Did I just do something that I could be in big trouble for.' "

He said that he hired lawyers and ultimately agreed to be interviewed by investigators after receiving immunity from prosecution.

So if Fleischer asked for immunity and received it then isn't that an admission of guilt, at least on his part? And if he is guilty of breaking some law then doesn't that mean that the people that he is working for are also likely guilty of breaking some law?

I mean maybe I am reading too much into this but Ari Fleischer appears terrified of incriminating himself. Innocent people do not usually fear that. It just seems to me that giving Fleischer immunity almost guarantees that Libby and probably others are going to find themselves making deals.

Fitzgerald made his reputation by getting small fish to turn on the bigger fish. That is how he brought down the Gambino crime family. I just cannot help feeling that Fitzgerald does not want Libby. He is using Libby to get to the people who are the "big fish".

Keep watching kids, I just know this is going to get very, very good.