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On October 28, 2005 AD, Libby was indicted on five felony counts (1*Obstruction of Justice, 2*Making False Statements, 2*Perjury) due to his involvement in the [[Valerie Plame]] affair. On March 6, 2007 AD, Libby was found guilty of the felony offense of lying to a grand jury. He had testified that he first learned about Joe Wilson's wife from VP Dick Cheney, and that when [[Tim Russert]] mentioned her in a phone call a month or so later, Libby told Russert that he had forgotten about her. Russert testified that no one mentioned Wilson's wife on that phone call.
On October 28, 2005 AD, after his indictment by Fitzgerald's grand jury, he resigned as Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, as assistant to the Vice President for national security affairs, and as assistant to President Bush. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4979769
'''Jurors convict Libby on four of five charges'''
Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s AD. The case brought new attention to the Bush administration's much-criticized handling of weapons of mass destruction intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Guilty Count 1 - Obstruction of Justice: Libby intentionally deceived the grand jury about how he learned, and “disclosed to the media,” information about Valerie Plame Wilson’s employment by the CIA.
Guilty Count 2 - Making a False Statement: Libby intentionally gave FBI agents false information about a conversation he had with NBC’s Tim Russert regarding Valerie Plame Wilson, who is married to Joseph Wilson.
At trial, Libby's claim was contradicted by nine witnesses, including government officials, who said he had talked to them about Plame weeks earlier. ...
From the outset, as legal experts saw it, the case against Libby was simple and straightforward — and hard to defend against. ...
Since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s AD, one of Washington's favored cliches has been that it's not the crime but the cover-up that gets officials into trouble.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assess7mar07,1,2839083.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
