I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby’s perjury trial is adopting a “scorched earth” strategy in which his main defense lawyer pointed accusatory fingers at White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove as well as other top current and former Bush aides. Newsweek reports.
It was the last thing the White House needed at a time when President Bush is already on the defensive over Iraq: a circular firing squad in a federal courtroom in which the president’s men—and Vice President Dick Cheney’s—are all shooting at each other. But that’s how the perjury trial of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby,
