WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was indicted on Friday on five criminal counts of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements after a two-year investigation into the leak of a covert CIA operative's identity.

President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, was not indicted along with Libby but special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has made clear to Rove that he remains under investigation and in legal jeopardy, legal sources said.

Libby, who as Cheney's chief of staff played a major behind-the-scenes role in building the case for the Iraq war, was accused of lying in 2003 about how and when he learned and disclosed to reporters classified information about the covert operative, Valerie Plame.

If convicted, Libby, 55, faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine, prosecutors said.

Fitzgerald planned to hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT

The charges handed up by the grand jury during a three-minute proceeding were the first in the two-year investigation, sparked by the public disclosure of Plame's identity in a July 14, 2003, newspaper column by Robert Novak.

The leak case has put a spotlight on the sometimes aggressive tactics the White House uses to counter critics of the Iraq war. It has also focused attention on the administration's shifting justifications for the 2003 invasion, from the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction -- which were never found -- to a need to spread democracy.

Plame's identity was leaked to the media after her diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence to support military action against Iraq. Wilson said it was done deliberately to erode his credibility.

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I hope they indicte Karl Rove, and the chances are that his indictment is sooner than later. That would be interesting, Bush without Rove.

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Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the name reminds me of another person having the same surname libbi i.e Abu Faraj Al-Libbi; the so called number 3 of Al-Qaeda by the west, which was handed over by Pakistan and in reward we got this infamous carricature from washingtontimes.The image is attached below.

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Isn't that the reality, they are merely giving us the reality check. Be ally with us and u have to be a dog, a dog with a leash, with no identity of his own and certainly no principles.

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This is what i received as an E-mail just few days after the Cartoon was published in the "Washington Times", it features Holly Wood Actress Angelina Jolie's visit to Pakistan regarding the Afghan Refugees! Image is attached...

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Nice job guys, after all we are pakistanis, we can stick it to the man!

I liked that.

hey! thanx for sharing that carricature! I'd been lookin for it since the time i heard of it but never witnessed it.

I guess this carricature is not as insulting as the statement that a US Senator had made back when our Govt. handed over Aimal Kansi to the US-Authorities.

Besides, ALLAH S.W.T has promised humiliation of the ummah when it strays from the path of islam... Infact, this is what they call the beginning of the end.


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BUSHaRRaF

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Mr. Busharraf, as always you sum things up very nicely.

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