WTF Is It Now?!?

Fleischer feared death penalty in CIA leak case
Will now be a walking dead man to his former Washington colleagues.

Jon Ponder reports:

Former White House spokesman Ari Fleisher sought immunity from prosecution because he was worried he might have committed treason — and even feared he was in jeopardy of receiving the death penalty:

Now Libby’s lawyers are now firing back, questioning the conditions of Fleischer’s immunity deal.

Also from Jon:

White House anxiety is mounting over the prospect that top officials - including deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and counselor Dan Bartlett - may be forced to provide potentially awkward testimony in the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis (Scooter) Libby.

While that is no guarantee they will be called, the odds increased this week after Libby’s lawyer, Ted Wells, laid out a defense resting on the idea that his client, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, had been made a “scapegoat” to protect Rove. Cheney is expected to provide the most crucial testimony to back up Wells’s assertion, one of the lawyers close to the case said.