White House liar faces jail term

The man who was once US vice president Dick Cheney’s closest adviser is facing up to 25 years behind bars after being convicted of lying and obstructing a media leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration.

Lewis “Scooter” Libby is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the national security adviser John Poindexter, in the Iran-Contra affair two decades ago.