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In CIA leak trial, Libby found guilty
Jurors Tuesday convicted Cheney's onetime chief of staff, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, on four counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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This from an article in the csm (one of the few with their own worldwide news services, and thus independence from most intelligence agencies, if not all).



The Plame investigation sprang from a 16-word sentence in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, in which he stated that Iraq was attempting to purchase uranium from Africa. In July 2003, Ambassador Wilson wrote a column stating that he had found no evidence of such Iraqi attempts and accused the Bush administration of twisting intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq.

According to the argument laid out against Libby by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Cheney's office – and Libby in particular – swung into action to discredit Wilson. Libby's defense team argued that the senior aide did not deliberately make false statements under oath, but rather was a very busy man who could not be expected to remember everything he had said and to whom and when.