Robert Parry – The Big Media has judged the trial of former White House aide Lewis „Scooter“ Libby as an irrelevance, a case study in the old cliche that „it’s not the crime but the cover-up.“

However, the major news organizations are again missing the point. Libby’s trial is a chance to show how George W. Bush punished early dissenters to his Iraq War.

It’s an opportunity to climb into a time machine and return to the recent past when Bush and his neoconservative bullies ruled the political waterfront. Read all @ Consortiumnews