Think Progress: Dick Morris Says Libby Indictment Implicates Cheney…

Think Progress: Dick Morris Says Libby Indictment Implicates Cheney…

On Fox News, former presidential advisor Dick Morris says today’s events don’t bode well for Dick Cheney:

JOHN GIBSON: How bad is this damage? And what does the president need to control it, Dick?

DICK MORRIS: Well, it depends on whether we are just talking about Libby. If the prosecutor is happy with an indictment of him, a conviction, and that scalp on the wall is sufficient for him, then it just goes away. It’s one bad chapter and it passes.

But it is very possible that the prosecutor looks up the food chain to Vice President Cheney. These investigations have a way of rising. And according to the terms of the indictment, Cheney told Libby about Valerie Plame and then Libby lied to the grand jury about how he found about it, saying that he got it from a reporter. Well, if that’s the case, the vice president knew that Libby was lying. [...]

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