>He was NOT found guilty of leaking the information. DId I miss something?
No you did not.
He was found guilty of lying about where he heard about the leak.
Does it matter where he heard about the leak?
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>>>>wooohooo! Ok so when can we put Cheney on trial?
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>>>>"....Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty on four of five counts in his perjury and obstruction of justice trial. Libby faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a fine of $1 million. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was accused of lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters...."
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>>>>25 years - so lets see with time for good behavior and the need to make more prision room for the ultra-dangerours pot smokers - he should be out in what.... 3 weeks?
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>>>I wonder if this will go up higher to Cheney or even Bush? Sounds like a reasonable reason for impeachment.
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>>Oh no you can leak CIA operative's identity and start illegal wars with the wrong country and run a concentration camp in cuba and not get impeached. You have to do something really bad - like have sex with a girl on yer office like Clinton did.
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