Cheney 'lies aide' is jailed.Byline: By MIRROR REPORTER DISGRACED former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was jailed yesterday for lying and obstructing a CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). leak investigation. Libby, the one-time chief of staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, said he will appeal against the 30-month term. He is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra affair Iran-contra affair, in U.S. history, secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. and has maintained his innocence. Libby told the judge: "It is my hope the court will consider my whole life." US District Judge Reggie B Walton said: "People who have the security of a nation in their hands have a special obligation to not do anything that might create a problem." Libby was found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. in March over the investigation into the unmasking of CIA officer Valerie Plame in March. Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote letters to the judge in support of Libby's bid for probation. CAPTION(S): DISGRACED: Libby |
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