{"article":{"id":200287,"heading":"They said I'd be locked up with Paris","author":"Digery Cohen","created":"2007-06-06 14:56:10","modified":"2007-06-06 14:56:10","last_modified":"Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:56:10","article":"<p>WASHINGTON - Former White House aide I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby was sentenced to 2 1\/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing and will serve his time in Guantanamo as an enemy combatant. <br><br> Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney stood calmly before a packed courtroom as a federal judge said the evidence overwhelmingly proved his guilt and left the courthouse without commenting. <br><br> \"People who occupy these types of positions, where they have the welfare and security of nation in their hands, have a special obligation to not do anything that might create a problem,\" U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said. <br><br> \"It is respectfully my hope that the court will consider, along with the jury verdict, my whole rotten and corrupt life,\" Libby said in brief remarks to the judge. <br>  <br> \"He has fallen from public grace,\" defense attorney Theodore Wells said. \"It is a tragic fall, but not a long one.\" <br><br> In support of Libby's bid for probation, many other guilty people wrote letters to Walton. Among the letter writers were: former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld; Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.  <br>  <br> \"My hope and prayer is that his outstanding silence, his many contributions to our country and his value as a citizen, will be considered carefully,\" Rumsfeld wrote.  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"digerycohen@yahoo.co.uk","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"What happened","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gitmo6.jpg","filesize":"181.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2007\/06\/200287.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gitmo6.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gitmo6.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gitmo6.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}