Cheney triggers Armitage(!)

Perhaps I get this sentence below the headline wrong but it means to me: if cheney doesnt get busted with plame, he ll never will. strange that he increased the load by shooting wittington. I think there was someone important who couldnt bust Cheney anymore. Wonder who this was.

Cheney backs Libby, blames leak on Armitage

That meant taking up the pardon question again was, as a West Wing veteran put it later, like passing a kidney stone — for the second time. Bolten declined to take a stand, according to several associates. Instead, he lateraled the issue to Fielding, claiming that a legal, not a political, call was required. If the counsel’s office decided a pardon wasn’t merited, says an official involved in the discussions, everyone else would have cover with Cheney. “They could say, Our hands are tied — our lawyers said the guy was guilty.”