In arguing against jail time for his client, the attorney for disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy has invoked the case of former White House official Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in jail and two years of probation for charges including obstruction of justice and perjury. President...
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WASHINGTON -- I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, announced Monday that he was dropping the appeal of his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case. The move comes five months after President Bush commuted the 30- month...
WASHINGTON AFP — A former top White House aide partially pardoned after being served a jail term for obstructing a probe into the outing of a CIA agent has dropped his appeal in the case, lawyers said Monday. In July President George W. Bush pardoned Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a...
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative's name because of misinformation given to him by President Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials. A three-paragraph excerpt from the book...
WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist, announced Monday he will leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration. On board with...
As is often the case in the Bush White House, it was a decision made swiftly, and with stealth. For weeks, allies of I. Lewis Scooter Libby had aggressively lobbied the president to pardon Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. Libby's powerful supporters--including major GOP fund-raisers like Florida developer Melvin...
WASHINGTON -- President Bush always said he would wait to talk about the CIA leak case until after the investigation into his administration's role. On Thursday, he skipped over that step and pronounced the matter old news hardly worth discussing. "It's run its course," he said. "Now we're...
WASHINGTON -- President Bush always said he would wait to talk about the CIA leak case until after the investigation into his administration's role. On Thursday, he skipped over that step and pronounced the matter old news hardly worth discussing. "It's run its course," he said. "Now...
IT'S hard to say who is more indebted to President Bush -- Scooter Libby or Bill Clinton. Libby owes the president for his freedom. As for Clinton, he owes Bush for the political pardon he has been granted by Americans. Many voters who once suffered from Clinton fatigue have succumbed...
PRACTICALLY everything else in American life has been dumbed down, so why not constitutional crises? The braying over President Bush's commutation of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence is that Bush has undermined the rule of law and the Constitution. ...
PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING else in American life has been dumbed down, so why not constitutional crises? The braying over President Bush's commutation of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence is that Bush has undermined the rule of law and the Constitution. ...
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this...
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is...
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this...
CONTRARY to the outcries from leading Democrats in Congress, President Bush finally has brought some justice to the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. By commuting Libby's utterly unreasonable sentence but leaving his $250,000 fine and two years of probation in place, the president also has put this victimless crime...
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this...
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this...
