Ok, well that is directly contradictory to my recollections of the headlines the day after the lawyer's opening statement. That's what we're talking about---the lawyer (Wills? Wells?) abandoned that line AFTER his opening statement, but he had, I thought, already introduced that notion into the trial. Do you have the opening statement or a link?
Wells' opening said that Libby felt like a fall guy for the WH because Rove had been cleared but they balked at clearing Libby when he asked McClellan and Card so he (Libby) went to Cheney. It's all consistant and not contradictory.
Incidentally, it does not mean the WH was making Libby a fall guy, but that he felt that way at that time due to what I outlined above. Cheney defended Libby and wrote that note and McClellan then did make the requested statement.