What was scooter libby guilty of

Libby, chief of staff to Cheney during the run-up and early years of the Iraq war, was found guilty in of lying and obstructing an investigation into who blew the cover of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Her husband Joseph Wilson, a former career U. Bolton was a key Bush administration advocate, along with Cheney and Libby, of the U.

Trump has been attacking the FBI amid the investigation of his presidential campaign for possible links to Russian meddling in the election. White House aides said earlier this week that Trump was fuming over FBI raids related to the investigation on Monday of the office and home of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. She and her husband had been in talks to represent Trump in the Russia investigation. Comey of leaking classified information and lying to Congress.

Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif. A key witness recanted. And so, on his last full day in office, Jan. These last hours represent a climactic chapter in the mysterious and mostly opaque relationship at the center of a tumultuous period in American history. It reveals how one question—whether to grant a presidential pardon to a top vice-presidential aide—strained the bonds between Bush and his deputy and closest counselor.

And in a broader way, it uncovers a fundamental difference in how the two men regarded the legacy of the Bush years. As a Cheney confidant puts it, the Vice President believed he and the President could claim the war on terrorism as his greatest legacy only if they defended at all costs the men and women who fought in the trenches. When it came to Libby, Bush felt he had done enough.

The Libby investigation, which began nearly six years ago, went to the heart of whether the Bush Administration misled the public in making its case to invade Iraq. But other Bush-era policies are still coming under legal scrutiny. Who, for example, should be held accountable in one of the darkest corners of the war on terrorism—the interrogators who may have tortured detainees? Or the men who conceived and crafted the policies that led to those secret sessions in the first place?

How far back—and how high up the chain of command—should these inquiries go? Click here to read the whole article. Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.