I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby walks towards his car outside federal court in Washington June 5, 2007, after he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. On July 2, President Bush spared the former White House aide from a prison term, issuing an order that commutes his sentence. On March 20, 2008, Libby was barred from practicing law in the nation's capital.
This artist rendering shows the verdict being delivered in federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, second from right.
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby leaves federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007 after he was convicted of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to reporters.
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, left, and his wife Harriet Grant, leave federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, after the jury reached its verdict in his perjury trial. Libby faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced June 5, but under federal sentencing guidelines is likely to face far less.
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, right, and his wife Harriet Grant, walk past reporters outside federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, after the jury reached its verdict in his perjury trial. Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, center, talks to reporters outside federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, after the jury reached its verdict in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff was convicted on four of five counts of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.
Denis Collins, center, a juror in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial, speaks to the media outside the federal courthouse March 6, 2007, in Washington, D.C. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty of obstruction of justice, perjury and lying to investigators. Libby's attorney has promised to seek a new trial.
Former ambassador Joseph Wilson arrives at his home in Washington, Tuesday March 6, 2007 after Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that reached into the highest levels of the Bush administration.
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby walks past photographers as he prepares to give a news conference in Washington, March 6, 2007, after the jury reached its guilty verdict in Libby's perjury trial. The four counts on which Libby was convicted include two counts of perjury, one count of lying to the FBI and one count of obstruction of justice. He was acquitted on one count of lying to the FBI.