Lost in the tsunami of commentary on the Libby perjury trial verdict is that a second trial looms that could be far more damaging to Vice President Cheney and the Bush administration.
That trial would be on the lawsuit that Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame have filed against Cheney, Libby, Karl Rove and Richard Armitage.
The lawsuit would have proceeded no matter the outcome of the criminal trial. That is because it is not about whether Libby obstructed justice and lied, but whether the high-profile defendants violated the constitutional rights of the former diplomat and his CIA agent wife by conspiring to retaliate against them after Wilson revealed that one of the key rationales used by the administration for going to war in Iraq was phony.
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