Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. 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. He was acquitted of one count of lying to the FBI. Fitzgerald says Libby learned about Plame from Cheney and other officials in June 2003 and relayed it to reporters. Libby's defense team argued that Libby recalled his conversations to the best of his ability. Any inaccuracies he made to the FBI or a federal grand jury were the result of a faulty memory, attorneys said. Key to several charges were Libby's recollections of conversations he had with Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press" and former Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper. During the trial, prosecutors said Libby made up a ludicrous lie to save his job duri
Following are the individual charges and their corresponding verdicts:
Obstruction of justice: GUILTY
False statements to FBI investigators (Russert conversation): GUILTY
False statement to FBI investigators (Cooper conversation): NOT GUILTY
Perjury to the grand jury (Russert conversation): GUILTY
Perjury to the grand jury (Cooper conversation): GUILTY
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