Libby found guilty on 4 of 5 counts.

Scooter Libby has been found guilty on 4 of 5 counts.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/06/cia.leak/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty on four of five counts in his perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

Libby, 56, faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a fine of $1 million.

Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and two counts of perjury.

Jurors cleared him of a second count of making a false statement.

The indictment against the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney concerned how Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA operative and what Libby said to a grand jury concerning the case.

Libby was not accused of exposing Plame. He resigned in 2005 after the grand jury indicted him.

Prosecutors contended Libby disclosed Plame's covert profession to reporters as part of a plan to discredit her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador who alleged that the Bush administration twisted some intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Wilson, who conducted a CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, wrote in a July 2003 New York Times editorial that he found no evidence Iraq sought to buy uranium from the African nation, as the administration claimed.

The jury was down to 11 members -- seven women and four men. A week ago, one of the jurors revealed that she had obtained outside information that prompted the judge to disqualify her.

The defense said it would accept 11 jurors to avoid having to start deliberations over with an alternate. The prosecution objected, but U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton overruled, and the panel has continued with one chair empty.

Testimony and evidence in the trial began January 23.

Here is a graphic of the counts.

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I listened to Howard Dean's statement

and he said that the Democrats are demanding that president bush make a public statement saying he will not pardon Libby for these charges.....well good for them, I am glad they are standing up for what is right.

 

it will be interesting to see if this turns into an impeachment against both Bush and Chenney

 

 "Its time for Americans to be Patriotic about something other than war" John Edwards (Riverside Church Jan. 2007)

I sure hope so, Belinda.

Hopefully, this will be the catalyst to get the
ball rolling in that direction.

Georgie should not pardon Libby under any circumstances.
I'm glad to hear our Dem. leaders demanding it.

Karin I agree,

"Its time for Americans to be Patriotic about something other than war" John Edwards (Riverside Church Jan. 2007)

 

we can hope cant we :)  

I agree, too

I certainly hope that the Bush adminisrtation doesn't clear Libby, but there's no guarantee. This should start an impeachment process, but with Pelosi being stubborn about keeping that "off the table" we may not get the initiative passed by congress.

A presidential pardon may not be possible...

there are conditions tied to pardons. In no case does Libby qualify at this time for such.

http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon

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