V.P. on the Hot Seat?

I'm starting to do my homework, and I will let you follow along if you're interested.

Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo reports that:

"Scooter Libby has sworn under oath that Vice President Cheney told him that President Bush had authorized him to disclose classified information. Let's set aside the whole question of whether the president can do that or whether there's a specific procedure he has to follow. Just set that issue aside. If it isn't true that Vice President Cheney told him that, then Vice President Cheney must know that Libby has again perjured himself. I would think the Vice President has an affirmative duty to come forward and say that Libby's testimony is false.

So my initial understanding may be wrong. The Vice President stands between the President and allegations of criminality. If the press and/or Congress sweeps this under the rug, then we're doomed. This is Watergate redux. We'll be talking about nothing else for the next six months . . . and with the quagmire in Iraq showing no signs of ending, it's a good thing, too.