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Lewis "Scooter" Libby Guilty on four of five counts

Yes, there apparently is a just God in heaven. At least one neo-conservative has an opportunity to spend a good part of the rest of his life in the greybar hotel.

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Jurors convict Libby on four of five charges
Cheney’s ex-aide faces 30 years in CIA leak case; sentencing set for June

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity.

Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s. The conviction focused renewed attention on the Bush administration’s much-criticized handling of weapons of mass destruction intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.

The verdict culminated an almost four-year investigation into how CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name was leaked to reporters in 2003. The trial revealed how top members of the Bush administration were eager to discredit Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who accused the administration of doctoring prewar intelligence on Iraq.
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