WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was indicted Friday on five charges that include obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA agent’s name.
The indictment could trigger a shake-up at the White House, already on the defensive over the response to Hurricane Katrina, opposition to the Iraq war and the withdrawal of President Bush’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Harriet Miers.
Details were to be outlined at 2 p.m. ET, when Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald will hold a press conference at the Justice Department. The grand jury that handed up the indictment had been hearing the case for nearly two years and its term expires Friday.
Fitzgerald and his investigators have been trying to determine whether Libby or any other administration officials knowingly revealed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame or lied about their involvement to investigators. Her husband is diplomat Joseph Wilson, an opponent of the Iraq war who challenged Bush’s assertion that Saddam Hussein was trying to secure nuclear materials.
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Well DU got its Fiztmas present. Libby is like getting underwear from Grand=Ma.
Fitzgerald looks like a cop who was sent out to investigate a murder and caught somebody driving 10 miles over the speed limit through the murder scene.
Could the media get over this already
Now we know where the number's 1 to 5 came from?
Its really hard for me to read anything on MSNBC. Chrissy is such a hard-core liberal that he would throw his children under a bus if he thought it would help the president be impeached.