In my earlier post on the matter, I lamented how abstracted this conviction is from the biggest crimes of the administration. While the increasingly right-wing Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal is already fawning for Libby to be pardoned, arguing he shouldn't be punished for the mistakes of the entire administration, other voices are suggesting the administration itself is impacted as a consequence of the verdict. 

Political Wire's Quote of the Day captures it best: 

"The trial has been death by 1,000 cuts for Cheney. It’s hurt him inside the administration. It’s hurt him with the Congress, and it’s 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.