Scary!
Don’t stop celebrating, this is still a HUGE blow to the Bush Administration, and it’s not over yet. Rove’s still under investigation (more on the investigation HERE and on the Fitzgerald press conference HERE).
But. Since Libby submitted his resignation immediately, a replacement will have to be named. The Daily News, anticipating the Libby indictment reported this morning that sources close to Cheney’s office reveal that Libby “will be replaced by Cheney’s current chief counsel, David Addington” about whom Scott Shields says: “to put it kindly, [he’s] a real piece of work.”
Shields quotes liberally from a Washington Post profile:
Even in a White House known for its dedication to conservative philosophy, Addington is known as an ideologue, an adherent of an obscure philosophy called the unitary executive theory that favors an extraordinarily powerful president.
Read the rest of the money quotes [HERE]. (MyDD)
— From Evan Derkacz at Alternet’s PEEK.
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