"Scooter" Libby Disbarred from Practising Law

Lewis "Scooter" Libby will lose his license to practise or appear in court in Washington until at least 2012.  He will also probably lose any bar membership he holds in other states.Convicted of lying to the...

Judge Walton's Pettifoggery

By Cecil Turner, The American Thinker, July 14, 2007 Ten days after the President commuted the prison term of I. Lewis Libby, Judge Walton upheld the amended sentence in a new memorandum opinion, and displayed...

Lewis "Scooter" Libby Got What Paris Hilton Could Not Get

"Some five hours after a federal appeals panel ruled that Lewis Libby cannot delay his 30-months prison term, President has intervened to prevent the former vice-presidential aide, from serving the prison term.Libby was convicted obstructing an inquiry into the leaking of a...

Top Reasons Bush Had to Commute Libby Sentence

According to the White House, President Bush has commuted the prison portion of Lewis "Scooter" Libby's Prison sentence. This means that Libby will not serve any jail time for "lying."  The President did...

Bloggers to Sit In On Scooter Libby Trial

"The new media moves forward. Bloggers will have media passes to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's trial "Associated Press:The trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is making media history in one of...

Disclosure Could Hurt Libby Defense (Richard B. Schmitt/Los Angeles Times)

"Disclosure Could Hurt Libby Defense  —  His lawyers have said the former aide misspoke as he thought of other issues.  But papers show his bosses' minds were on rebutting a critic.  —  WASHINGTON — The disclosure that a Bush...

Documents Reveal New Details of Libby Conversations (Carol D. Leonnig/Washing...

"Documents Reveal New Details of Libby Conversations  —  Court documents released today provide new details about the testimony that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff gave to a grand jury investigating his conversations with reporters and...

US tycoon linked with Iraq oil deals- The Economic Times

"NEW DELHI: The oil deals in which Natwar Singh and the Congress party are allegedly "non-contractual beneficiaries" could have direct and indirect links with Marc Rich, an American fugitive who faced a potential 300 years in prison till he was most...

Libby May Have Tried to Mask Cheney's Role

In the aftermath of Libby's recent five-count indictment, this curious sequence raises a question of motives that hangs over the investigation: Why would an experienced lawyer and government official such as...

Plame in the Courtroom

Rumors and leaks continue to swirl around the case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame and the various journalists and Bush "senior administration officials" believed to be involved in some fashion in her...

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