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Jun 15, 2007 2:28 PM CDT

Scooter Won't Need to Beg for Pardon

Slate's political wiz doesn't see Libby landing behind bars

(Newser) - President Bush will step in and save Scooter Libby for two reasons, argues Slate's John Dickerson. First, to repay Dick Cheney for not throwing Karl Rove under the bus. And second, pardoning Libby could help Bush regain Republican support by appeasing conservatives who opposed the CIA leak investigation from the...

Judge Orders Libby to Prison

Jun 14, 2007 3:42 PM CDT

Judge Orders Libby to Prison

Defense likely to appeal trial court's ruling

(Newser) - Scooter Libby may not remain free pending appeal, the judge in his perjury trial ruled today, and must begin serving his 30-month sentence this summer. His defense team will turn next to a federal appeals court, the Washington Post reports, but the most pressing legal question now is whether President...

Prosecutor Pushes for Quick Action on Libby

Jun 12, 2007 2:28 PM CDT

Prosecutor Pushes for Quick Action on Libby

Fitzgerald urges judge to rule against release pending appeal

(Newser) - The prosecutor in the Scooter Libby case wants the judge to send the vice president's ex-chief of staff to prison sooner rather than later. Arguing that the chance of an appeals court overturning the conviction is "at best, remote," Patrick Fitzgerald filed documents today calling for Libby's 30-month...

Libby Draws
30 Months,
$250K Fine

Jun 5, 2007 12:44 PM CDT

Libby Draws 30 Months, $250K Fine

Judge says VP's former right-hand man 'got off course'

(Newser) - The vice president's ex-chief of staff will spend 30 months in prison and pay a $250,000 fine for lying to federal investigators about his role in blowing a CIA agent's cover. Judge Reggie Walton cited "overwhelming evidence" of Scooter Libby's guilt in sentencing him today on charges of...

Plame Files Suit Against CIA

May 31, 2007 4:48 PM CDT

Plame Files Suit Against CIA

Ex-spy, publisher accuse agency of interfering with her memoir

(Newser) - The former CIA agent whose cover was blown, leading to the perjury conviction of the vice president's former top aide, is suing the agency for interfering with the publication of her memoir. Valerie Plame Wilson and Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Fair Game, filed suit in federal court...

Prosecutor Keeps an Eye
on Cheney

May 30, 2007 9:56 AM CDT

Prosecutor Keeps an Eye on Cheney

Froomkin: Even after the fact, CIA leak case evidence leads to VP

(Newser) - Scooter Libby is about to be sentenced, but the government prosecutor and lawyers for the VP's ex-chief of staff aren't letting up, the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin blogs today. The jousting continued in a court filing last week in which, Froomkin posits, "the special counsel evidently felt obliged to...