Oh for cripes sake, Libby was frigging lawyer, he was defending a client in court, get a grip. Lawyers represent all kinds of criminals, it doesn't mean they are joined in criminal enterprises like Hillary and Marc Rich are.
Yes, but a lawyer/mouthpice for a traitor like Rich doesn't belong in a sensitive White House position. Not in a Republican administration. As the article said, Libby's presence in the White House might be one reason the Bush folks didn't pursue the possible corruption in CLinton's pardon of Rich. Libby phoned Rich to congratulate him on the pardon -- it would be strange for Libby and his administration colleagues to follow up by investigating that pardon, wouldn't it.
Bush and Cheney would do well not to hire any more "mouthpieces" for criminal scum.
I agree with you that representing Rich doesn't mean that Libby is some kind of criminal himself.
Congratulating Rich was ill-advised and doesn't say much for Libby, but this article makes a bit of a stretch in equating that with Libby being "connected" to Hillary. It would be a "connection" if they all belonged to some specific social group in a significant way (such as being officers or something like that), or if they had a common financial interest or were mutually involved in a specific financial exchange, or something to that effect. But the only connection mentioned in this article is the phone. I see this as raising questions about Libby's character, but not as evidence of a connection to Hillary.
You can say the same thing about a lawyer for the Mafia. Even the Mafia deserve lawyers. But mob lawyers shouldn't have a role in a Republican administration. And the lawyer for a traitor - Rich, who traded with Iran when they held US hostages - doesn't belong in a Bush administration., If Bush and Cheney had understood this, they could have saved themselves a lot of grief. Libby's alleged lying to the FBI and to the Grand Jury is a Clintonian exercise - something that has embarrassed BUsh and Cheney. They never should have hired this creep, LEt the Democrats hire Marc Rich's cronies. republicans should keep their distance from traitors and from traitors' lawyers.