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 WASHINGTON (AP) - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will soon receive an inmate number, a prison assignment and a date to surrender. Before that date draws near, however, the former White House aide hopes an appeals court will step in and block his 2 1/2-year sentence.
Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, lost a court fight Thursday that would have put his prison term on hold until his appeals have run out. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton was never persuaded that Libby deserved a delay.
Walton cited the "overwhelming" evidence that Libby lied to investigators and obstructed Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's inquiry into the 2003 leak of a CIA operative's identity.
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