Time Magazine - Scooter Libby spun intricate web

Scooter Libby - "spun an intricate --and criminal web of lies."

From Fall of a Vulcan, Michael Duffy Time on-line.

If special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is right, Libby spun an intricate--and criminal--web of lies when he spoke to FBI agents and a grand jury last year investigating the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame to reporters in 2003. Although Libby maintained under oath that he first heard about Plame's identity from reporters and passed it on to others as mere gossip, Fitzgerald's indictment offers considerable evidence that it was the other way around--that Libby told two reporters, including TIME's Matthew Cooper, about Plame's work for the CIA, and that he lied to investigators about one of those conversations and confected a third out of whole cloth.

Of My God! The horror! And by the way, not one word of evidence to support a space filling incendiary article intended to simply keep the heat on."