{"id":11194,"date":"2018-04-13T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2018-04-13T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:09:27","slug":"scooter-libby-trump-pardons-cheney-aide-who-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/04\/13\/scooter-libby-trump-pardons-cheney-aide-who-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter Libby: Trump pardons Cheney aide who lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US President Donald Trump has pardoned Lewis Libby, who was convicted of lying while serving as chief of staff to former Vice-President Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>Libby, known as Scooter, was found guilty in 2007 following an investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of a CIA agent&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said Libby was &#8220;fully worthy of this pardon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know M. Libby,&#8221; said Mr Trump, &#8220;but for years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-43747229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">US President Donald Trump has pardoned Lewis Libby, who was convicted of lying while serving as chief of staff to former Vice-President Dick Cheney. Libby, known as Scooter, was found guilty in 2007 following an <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/04\/13\/scooter-libby-trump-pardons-cheney-aide-who-lied\/\" title=\"Scooter Libby: Trump pardons Cheney aide who lied\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[5060,285,5061],"class_list":{"0":"post-11194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-dick-cheney","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-lewis-libby","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11196,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions\/11196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}