Lewis "Scooter" Libby is an American lawyer[2][3] and former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
From 2001 to 2005, Libby held the offices of Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, Chief of Staff to the Vice President,[4] and Assistant to the President George W. Bush.
In October 2005,[5] Libby resigned from all three government positions after he was indicted on five counts by a federal grand jury concerning the investigation of the leak of the covert identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame Wilson.[6]
He was subsequently convicted of four counts (one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of making false statements),[7] making him the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since John Poindexter, the national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan in the Iran–Contra affair.[8]
He was subsequently convicted of four counts (one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of making false statements),[7] making him the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since John Poindexter, the national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan in the Iran–Contra affair.[8]
After a failed appeal, President Bush commuted Libby's sentence of 30 months in federal prison, leaving the other parts of his sentence intact.[9] As a consequence of his conviction in United States v. Libby, Libby's license to practice law was suspended until being reinstated in 2016.[
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