Text size  In the scandal that led last week to the indictment
of Lewis Libby, U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of
staff, there's a lesson to learn anew for Israel, which is so
woven into the Washington experience that once again it is not a
foreign body but a faction involved, for good and for bad, in
American domestic struggles. No matter how strong, when it
clashes with another faction, like the Pentagon (in the China
weapons sales) or the FBI (AIPAC/Larry Franklin), it is also
bruised. That's what happened to the highest echelon of the
Republican party in the current administration through its
interaction with the CIA.  The federal prosecutor from Chicago,
Patrick Fitzgerald, acquired a certain degree of understanding
in the backroom doings of the world of the press (he also
investigated and is working to convict the prior owners of The
Jerusalem Post). His charges against Libby expose the
interactions between politics, security and media - those who
sometimes hide like camouflaged soldiers behi