A federal judge sentenced I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, to 2 1/2 years in prison for obstructing the investigation into the leak of the identity of a CIA agent.
U.S. Federal Judge Reggie Walton said that during the trial he “watched with a sense of sadness” as evidence overwhelmingly showed that Libby lied to federal prosecutors about his role in receiving and passing along information about a CIA agent.
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