According to Wikipedia, "Irve Lewis 'Scooter' Libby is the former Assistant to the former President of the United States, George W. Bush and Chief of Staff to the former Vice President, Dick Cheney, and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.[Two years ago today,] Libby resigned all three government positions immediately after he was indicted on federal charges of obstruction and perjury resulting from the grand jury investigation into the leak of the covert identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame. In his trial for his role in the Plame affair, United States v. Libby, the jury convicted Libby on four of the five counts in the indictment: one count of obstruction of justice; two counts of perjury; and one count of making false statements to federal investigators...Libby is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Clinton plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI. Cisneros was eventually pardoned by Clinton."
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