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发帖数: 139 | 1 United States v. Libby
United States v. Libby was the federal trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a
former high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration, for
interfering with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal
investigation of the Plame affair.
United States v. Libby
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Full case name United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, also known as
"Scooter" Libby
Citations Docket no. 1:2005-cr-00394-RBW
Judge sitting Reggie Walton
Prosecutor(s) Patrick Fitzgerald
Defendant(s) Scooter Libby
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.
On April 3, 2007, the District of Columbia Bar suspended his license to
practice law in Washington, D.C., and recommended his disbarment pending his
appeal of his conviction.[1] On March 20, 2008, after he dropped his appeal
, he was disbarred by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in
Washington, D.C., at least until 2012.[2] He delayed reinstatement until
June 2016, when he successfully petitioned the court for reinstatement. He
was readmitted to the D.C. bar on November 3, 2016.[3]
In the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Disciplinary Counsel's Report
reinstating Libby's law license, the Counsel noted that Libby had continued
to assert his innocence. As a result, the Counsel had to "undertake a more
complex evaluation of a Petition for reinstatement" than when a petitioner
admits guilt. But the Counsel found that "Libby has presented credible
evidence in support of his version of events and it appears that one key
prosecution witnesses (sic), Judith Miller, has changed her recollection of
the events in question."[4] The reference to Judith Miller, a former New
York Times reporter, involved her memoir, The Story, A Reporter's Journey.
In the book, Miller said she read Plame's memoir and discovered that Plame's
cover was at the State Department, a fact Miller said the prosecution had
withheld from her. In rereading what she called her "elliptical" notes (
meaning hard to decipher), she realized they were about Plame's cover, not
her job at the CIA. She concluded that her testimony that Libby had told her
Plame worked at the CIA was wrong. "Had I helped convict an innocent man?"
she asked.[5] Miller went on to note that John Rizzo, a former CIA general
counsel, had said in his memoir that there was no evidence that the outing
of Plame had caused any damage to CIA operations or agents, including Plame.
[6] That statement rebuts the prosecution's closing argument that as a
result of the disclosure of Plame's identity, a CIA operative could be "
arrested, tortured, or killed." [7] [8] |
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