| | President Trump has pardoned Scooter Libby, the George W. Bush administration aide convicted of lying to the FBI in an investigation into a leak of the identity of a covert CIA agent. The pardon marks a stunning epilogue to a story of Bush administration intrigue, as Libby was a central figure in attempts to discredit reports that the government manipulated intelligence in order to justify the invasion of Iraq. But it also comes amid an FBI investigation into the Trump administration, and attempts by Trump and his allies to discredit former FBI director James Comey — who was the Justice Department official with oversight over the Libby case in 2005.
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