leaking valerie wilson's name was a possible federal offense. scooter libby had to worry about his role in that and had to worry about what dick cheney's role in that was, too. wasn't just covering up a political act. it was covering up a possible crime. so he took one not for the team. he took one for his leader, being cheney, not bush, and i think cheney is being somewhat of a standup guy. i think he's delusional when he says scooter libby was an is innocent person. he was trying to protect the guy. >> when sean penn shows up playing joe wilson in the movies, i think the public will know who the good guy is. >> hollywood gets the last word. >> they do, don't they? let me ask you about any other story coming out of this. besides scooter's guilt and all that. >> a little one, not as important or interesting as this. but this does reflect a difference of views after the presidency this. fight that takes place in the final 72 hours, 36 hours, does reflect how they are going to behave and perform after -- >> how they differ. bush comes back to do t

what libby was protecting was the fact that dick cheney was the one that found out that valerie plame was joe wilson's wife and worked for the cia. that dick cheney was the one whose own handwriting introduced as an exhibit in the trial was the one who introduced the political line of attack which was that joe wilson had been set to check out the iraq nuclear claims in nijer as a jungt arranged by his wife. that dick cheney authorized scooter to talk to reporters. scooter libby was asked several times -- did dick cheney tell you to talk about valerie plame? and he said, i don't recall. he said that several times. so it's -- there's no doubt that scooter was protecting his boss -- and his boss' boss. >> evidence at the trial showed that cheney told libby she's cia -- his wife is cia and you can talk to reporters about that? >> no, the evidence showed that he told libby -- he was the one who told libby even though libby was working hard to find out himself that valerie plame -- not only working for the cia, cheney found out personally from george tenet that she worked for the director of operations, whi

wilson, plame's husband, was saying things about the administration. the administration admits everyone involved admits that there was an organized effort to push back. part of that effort to push back included identifying valerie plame as wilson's husband. and that is documented in notes that fitzgerald found in the vice president's office and in libby's office. so that organized push by several people is now very well known. so his investigation wanted uncovered that this was going on on a broader level, then continued to try and find what the original genesis of it was. was it only armitage who had done it on his own or was armitage acting as part of a larger, more organized effort, perhaps directed from the highest levels of the white house? this is what fitzgerald said in the testimony. so that was always fitzgerald' justification for continuing after he found out that armitage himself had been the direct leak for novak. why did we continue covering it in the media and why did the prosecutor continue going? this really was a case as the prosecutor described it of potential criminal acts. there's a law against the disclosure of a covert case officer's identity. and that this was something that had gone on a