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Former Cheney aide sentenced to 30 months in prison (1st Lead)
Jun 5, 2007, 16:15 GMT
Washington - The former top aide to US Vice President Dick Cheney was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison for obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name in the lead up to the Iraq war.
I Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, will spend 30 months in prison and will also pay a 250,000 fine, CNN reported.
Libby was found guilty in March of perjury, obstruction and lying to investigators about the leak.
At issue was whether Libby, 56, lied to the grand jury and to FBI investigators probing whether US administration officials intentionally leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame to retaliate for her husband's criticism of the Iraq war.
Plame's husband, former US diplomat Joseph Wilson, alleges that the White House intentionally blew his wife's CIA cover.
Her name appeared in print on July 14, 2003, shortly after Wilson wrote a newspaper article discounting one of the US administration's war arguments - that Saddam Hussein's Iraq sought to obtain yellowcake uranium from the African country of Niger.
Exposing the identity of a CIA official can be a crime. Libby was not charged with leaking Plame's name to the media but with hampering the probe into who did. He resigned in 2005 after being indicted.
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Yo, M&C! You do realize that you have this posted four times on your front page, right? Three of three of the US section headlines are for this same story.
Oh, and it is almost as important as what is going on with Paris Hilton. Good move!
Now that 'Scooter' Libby has been sentenced to prison, does the sentence fit the crime and/or should he now be pardoned by Bush?
osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/06/scooter-libby-draws-prison-sentence-and .html#links
By the way, did you see the buried story on William Jefferson??? They, certainly, did not post that three times!
30 months for what these guys have done is a good start. I can only hope he has a great cellmate, who introduces him to the diversity we have in our prisons!
should be 30 years in gitmo,the lying little piece of neocon
who's gonna be riding that scooter in prison?I hope its big dick bubba
A powerfull BigWig American Politican goes to jail ? Evil corrupt American Bast*rds !
When will these Stupid Americans learn to follow the European Example of payoffs , bribes , Colonialism , Imperialism , We are Superior , we always have been we always will be .
Your a little too excited when your talking of fudgepacking actitives there BoBo.
And I doubt very seriously you have a clue what a neocon is or where they came from---movement started by democrats--look it up
Plame also lied during testimony and should get the same sentence for the same crime
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SP4: Next TimeJun 5th, 2007 - 16:44:52
Plead the 5th. A comppletely innocent man just went to jail. Bush should pardon him immediately.
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