Taking Exception

A White House reporter, who wishes to remain anonymous, takes exception with Eric Boehlert’s recent piece on Scooter Libby and Patrick Fitzgerald, entitled “Scooter Libby and the media debacle.” The reporter writes in to FishbowlDC:

Fitzgerald went after senior Bush political adviser Karl Rove and had his eyes on Vice President Dick Cheney — He got a guy named Scooter. Fitzgerald spent $1.4 million on a three-year investigation into which top White House official leaked the name of a covert CIA operative, and then charged a guy named Scooter with perjury (turns out the coverty CIA operative was neither covert nor an operative — discuss).

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