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Prosecutor Keeps an Eye on Cheney

Posted May 30, 07 9:56 AM CDT in US,  Politics,  Opinion 

(Newser) – Scooter Libby is about to be sentenced, but the government prosecutor and lawyers for the VP's ex-chief of staff aren't letting up, the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin blogs today. The jousting continued in a court filing last week in which, Froomkin posits, "the special counsel evidently felt obliged to put Libby's crime in context. And that context is Dick Cheney."

Patrick Fitzgerald had recommended that Libby have 30 to 37 months to contemplate his misdeeds. He's the highest-ranking White House official convicted of a crime since the Iran-contra scandal, which frustrates Fitzgerald, Froomkin says, because "he and his investigative team suspected more malfeasance at higher levels of government than they were able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt."

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Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby prepares to meet reporters outside federal court in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2007 after the jury reached a verdict in Libby's perjury trial. Campaigning...   (Associated Press)
Vice President Dick Cheney pauses while he addresses the graduating class of 2007 Saturday, May 26, 2007 at West Point Military Academy in Highland Falls, NY. Nine hundred seventy eight cadets received...   (Associated Press)
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald speaks at a news conference at the federal building in Chicago, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, about the arrest of John P. Tomkins, 42, of Dubuque, Iowa. Tomkins was arrested...   (Associated Press)
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