Cheney and Valerie Plame
In case one or two of you have forgotten why we elected Barack Obama president, check out this report from journalist Murray Waas on how the FBI believes Vice President Cheney was far more involved in making sure CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity was disclosed to the press--a federal crime--than has come out before now. Cheney was furious with Plame's husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, for publicly expressing doubt that Saddam Hussein had been trying to create weapons of mass destruction. Which we now know never existed. Lewis "Scooter" Libby took the fall for the vice president on this.
It will be interesting to see who receives President Bush's final pardons as he heads out the door to historical ignominy. Libby? Cheney? As we know from President Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of former President Richard Nixon for Watergate, people can be pardoned in advance to forestall indictments.