WASHINGTON - Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration.
Four guilty verdicts ended a seven-week CIA leak trial that focused new attention on the Bush administration's much-criticized handling of intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.
In the end, jurors said they did not believe Libby's main defense: that he hadn't lied but merely had a bad memory.
Their decisions made Libby the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since …
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