"CIA Leakgate" is zeroing in on guilty parties, and it would appear that the White House will not be able to escape this scandal unscaved. Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, chiefs of staff to the president and vice president, respectively, have testified before a grand jury that they learned of Valerie Plame's status at the CIA from each other or from reporters, and they only revealed that status to reporters who they believed were already "in the know." Evidence is starting to mount against that defense, which could mean perjury charges against both chiefs of staff, and other charges against other people in the White House. Now it appears that the chiefs of staff both "shopped around" their information, intentionally looking to leak Plame's status as an agent to multiple news sources to get back at her husband, who had made critical statements about the administration.

This will make George W. Bush the fourth victim of the second term curse. Bill Clinton's second term was mired in scandal, most notably the Monica Lewinsky affair and Ken Starr's slimy campaign against him. Ronald Reagan's second term was headlined by the Iran-Contra scandal, which revealed the president was involved in selling weapons to a terrorist nation in order to fund a secret, illegal war in Central America. Richard Nixon was forced to resign after his role in the Watergate robbery and its cover-up were revealed. He also faced income tax evasion charges, and would have likely spent time in prison had he not been pardoned by Gerald Ford. And that's your history lesson for the day.
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