The next stop in a tour of the work of David “Conspiracy theorist — Moi? Where have I proposed a conspiracy theory?” Corn would be “The Cheney Conspiracy?” posted on bushlies.com, davidcorn.com, and the Huffington Post on April 11, 2006. In it, Corn began:

Did special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald come close to hitting the vice president of the United States with a conspiracy charge?

Corn then recounted tidbits of Dick Cheney’s involvement in the CIA leak investigation and discussed the possibility that Fitzgerald might have charged Lewis Libby with violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or with improperly disseminating classified information:

Had Fitzgerald pursued either of these options, he would have had another matter to consider: whether to charge Cheney with conspiracy. If Fitzgerald had a case that Libby had acted criminally at the instruction of Cheney, then he would have had reason to indict Cheney as well.

In the end, Corn wrote, Cheney “lucked out” of a conspiracy charge.