Dick Cheney

Friday, May 25, 2007 15:00 PDT

"Mr. Libby should be sentenced to ... 30 to 37 months"

Read special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's sentencing memo for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby here.

On March 6, 2007, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice and false statements made to federal investigators arising out of an investigation into the leaking of the name of former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. On Friday, Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case, submitted his sentencing memorandum, outlining again the case against Libby and asking that Libby be sentenced to 30 to 37 months in prison. On the first two pages are screen shots from the memorandum, in which Fitzgerald lays out why Libby's lies were so important, and on the third page is a screen shot of the portion of the memorandum in which Fitzgerald makes the actual sentencing request. The full memorandum is available for download here.

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