Near-Deviant Fixation Turns Hunter Into Prey

The Los Angeles Times is reporting how Vice-President Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby became obsessed with former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his criticism of the Bush administration to the extent of putting a full-court press to find and counter any information, opinions, and appearances within the American media. 

The online cyberstalking and offline stalking evidently formed the environment in which Wilson's wife was exposed as being an undercover CIA officer.

The meticulous nature of Libby is well known and admirable by his colleagues and ironically this same attention to detail gives more credibility that he was involved in the leaking of the agent's name.

The amazing part of this to me is the totally consuming loyalty which is beginning to appear as the ticket of admission for a relationship within the Bush administration.  Forget your personal ethics, code of honor, and sense of right and wrong in order to join the team.  Leave common sense at the door it appears.  What initiation ceremonies are a part of getting an appointment or selection are unknown at this point.  But it is clear that "drinking the Kool-Aid" is absolutely a major requirement.

Libby evidently drank the Kool-Aid offered to him and as a demonstration of his role as a Cheney lap dog, Libby became a mongrel of a full-bred bloodhound and pit bull guard dog.

Cheney more than likely relished in his subject's adoration and his refusal to give an order to stand down to Libby is going to spread like wildfire through the Bush administration as a result.

Overpursuit on the wrong issues and topics is deadly and when ulterior motives are thrown within the mix, the house of cards should not play with matches while occupying the master bedroom.

One sure sign of the fruit going bad is the growing comments of others on the staff who are looking to achieve some degree of separation from the guilty.

The political body count is about to be filled with the fanatics who would answer any call at any hour "for the good of the country" even though the strategies and tactics would be dead wrong.