For the president and the vice president, the week was already one of the worst of their time in office. The flameout of Miers’s candidacy was a shattering blow to Bush and a reminder that Cheney’s advice had been disregarded. Now the prospect of a trial of the vice president’s chief of staff was devastating. It would go to the heart of the most dangerous political question confronting the administration, namely its veracity in selling the country on war. The Libby case had fueled the suspicion that the White House had deliberately deceived the country; “Bush Lied, People Died” was the
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