{"id":1141,"date":"2005-10-28T23:07:19","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2005-10-28T23:08:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T04:08:53","slug":"libby-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Libby Indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney &#8212; check that, now former chief of staff &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/28\/leak.probe\/index.html\">will face charges<\/a> resulting from the investigation into the possible outing of CIA employee Valerie Plame.  Note, the charges result from the investigation, not the outing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CIA leak investigation is &#8220;not over,&#8221; special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday after announcing charges against I. Lewis &#8220;Scooter&#8221; Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald said he will be keeping the investigation &#8220;open to consider other matters.&#8221; But, he said, &#8220;the substantial bulk of the work in this investigation is concluded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Libby resigned Friday after a federal grand jury indicted him on five charges related to the leak probe: <strong>one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For my favorite blogging on the matter, I&#8217;d like to direct you, dear reader, to Jeff Goldstein at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proteinwisdom.com\/\">Protein Wisdom<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proteinwisdom.com\/index.php\/weblog\/entry\/19260\/\">oft-updated effort<\/a> on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney &#8212; check that, now former chief of staff &#8212; will face charges resulting from the investigation into the possible outing of CIA employee Valerie Plame. Note, the charges result from the investigation, not the outing. The CIA leak investigation is &#8220;not over,&#8221; special prosecutor Patrick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}