Hotline Sums Up Libby Trial

From yesterday’s Hotline:

The lessons we’re taking from the Scooter trial are not entirely related to the charges against him. Which, of course, are not entirely related to blowing Plame’s cover.
— Libby is charged w/5 counts of P&O, not the bigger crime of publicly IDing Plame. Which should lessen reporters’ interest. Not so. Why? Because few things are bigger news to reporters than news about reporters.
— The trial has documented WH views on the media’s perceived role in helping advance the Bush admin’s agenda.

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