"The trial has been death by 1,000 cuts for Cheney. Itís hurt him inside the administration. Itís hurt him with the Congress, and itís hurt his stature around the world because it has shown a lot of the inner workings of the White House. It peeled the bark right off the way they operate."
-- Republican strategist Scott Reed, quoted by the New York Times, on the Scooter Libby trial.