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Here is a background of the Scooter Libby Case:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/04/annals-injustice-conrad-black/

EXCERPT:

In his demonic zeal to catch the big fish, Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald threw Reporter Judith Miller into jail for 85 days for taking the traditional journalistic position of refusing to reveal her sources.

She was conditionally released and carefully prepared as a grand-jury and trial witness by Fitzgerald, in the widespread American technique of prosecutors intimidating and cajoling witnesses and shaping their testimony to their requirements for conviction. She was persuaded by Fitzgerald that a phrase from her reporter’s notebook, “wife works in Bureau?,” proved that Libby told her about Plame.

Three years later, when she read Valerie Plame’s memoir of the affair, and saw that Plame had worked for the State Department, she realized that the word “Bureau” applied to that department and was not a reference to the CIA (which does not use the word “bureau”).

Fitzgerald had reviewed Plame’s employment record and had taken sworn testimony from all relevant people. He was aware of the sequence of contacts in the controversy and knew that Armitage was in fact the source, but ignored his constitutional duty to act on exculpatory evidence.

He misrepresented the facts to the judge and the jury, and he encouraged Judith Miller to misinterpret her own evidence in order to facilitate a conviction of Scooter Libby. Accurate testimony from Ms. Miller would have blown up most of the already unstable case against Libby, who was just a bridge to Cheney anyway; the vice president, Fitzgerald told the court, was “under a cloud,” meaning one confected by Fitzgerald. Ms. Miller conducted her own research after the fact and it was confirmed to her by Libby’s counsel that Fitzgerald, again in the usual corrupt functioning of the American plea-bargain system, had twice offered to drop all charges against Libby if he would inculpate the vice president. The big scalp leads to the big political or private-sector job, and to hell with the facts, the law, the public interest, and the rights of inconvenient people.