A special counsel investigating the White House announces an indictment.

The target, a top national security official who the special counsel asserts,

lied repeatedly to the FBI and under oath before a federal grand jury.

No, the special counsel we're talking about was not Robert Muller of Russia Gate fame.

It was Patrick Fitzgerald, a hard-charging prosecutor who in October 2005,

brought charges against Scooter Libby, the top aide to the then vice president Dick Cheney.

The charges against Libby Fitzgerald said then show the world that this is a country that takes

its laws seriously. But maybe not that seriously. Libby was later convicted a trial after a parade

of Bush administration officials testified against him, but now President Trump has pardoned,

saying he was treated unfairly. For Libby's many supporters, it was vindication.

But many others, including the prosecutors that brought the case, see the president's pardon

message as a case of revisionist history. We'll discuss the Libby pardon with one of the prosecutors

who brought the case, a former top deputy to Patrick Fitzgerald on today's episode of Buried Treasure.

I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

And I'm Dan Clyde, an editor-in-chief of Yahoo News.

You know, Dan, the timing of the Libby pardon is quite striking. On Monday, April 9th,

the president learns that his personal attorney has been rated by the FBI and no-knock search warrant

has been executed on his on Michael Cohen's office, home, and hotel room. Later that week,

he pardons Scooter Libby. It seems like the message here is what a special counsel does

can always be undone. Yeah, and it kind of came out, it was a bolt out of the blue. I mean,

no one was really talking about Scooter Libby. We know we weren't aware that there were some big

campaign to get a pardon. Let's remember, Scooter Libby's sentence was commuted at the end of the

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