Ex-White House aide Libby jailed for 30 months

FORMER White House aide Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison yesterday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation.

Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, stood calmly before a packed courtroom as a federal judge in Washington said the evidence overwhelmingly proved his guilt.

US District Judge Reggie B Walton said: “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.”