United States V. Libby
United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, also known as "Scooter Libby" (Case No. 1:2005-cr-00394-RBW) is the federal trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration.
Libby served as Assistant to the President under George W. Bush and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs under Dick Cheney from 2001 to 2005. Libby resigned from his government positions hours after his indictment on October 28, 2005.
Libby was indicted by a federal grand jury on five felony counts of making false statements to federal investigators, perjury for lying to a federal grand jury, and obstruction of justice for impeding the course of a federal grand jury investigation concerned with the possibly illegal leaking by government officials of the classified identity of a covert agent of the CIA, Valerie Plame Wilson, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Pursuant to the grand jury leak investigation, Libby was convicted on March 6, 2007, on four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. He was acquitted of one count of making false statements.
Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted in June 2007 by President Bush, voiding the prison term. The convictions still stand on the record.
Read more about United States V. Libby: CIA Grand Jury Investigation, Overview of The Trial and The Presidential Commutation, Presidential Commutation of Libby's Prison Sentence, Responses To Commutation, Speculation About Possible Witnesses Prior To The Start of The Trial, Press Coverage of The Trial, Book On The Case
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