Libby "escorted in the fashion of a convict out a private door by grim-faced marshals."

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Libby Is Seen as Weeks From Prison
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: June 15, 2007

WASHINGTON, June 13 — I. Lewis Libby Jr., once one of the most powerful men in government, was escorted by federal marshals out a side door in a federal courtroom here Thursday for processing after a judge issued a final ruling that he would have to begin serving his 30-month prison sentence shortly, even before his appeals were exhausted.

Mr. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was temporarily released after surrendering his passport and completing forms. He will have to report to a federal prison sometime in the next several weeks to begin serving his sentence after his conviction in March on four felony counts for lying in a C.I.A. leak investigation that became part of an intense debate over the war in Iraq....

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The final decision led to the stark spectacle of Mr. Libby’s leaving the courtroom for the first time not through the public entrance as he had done dozens of times in the past, but escorted in the fashion of a convict out a private door by grim-faced marshals.

Under federal procedures, the Bureau of Prisons is supposed to review Mr. Libby’s case and determine a location for him. Because federal prisoners are supposed to be placed near their homes if possible, Mr. Libby might be sent to a minimum-security prison camp in Maryland, Virginia or New Jersey....

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If Mr. Libby goes to prison, he will be the first senior White House official to do so since the days of Watergate, when several of President Richard M. Nixon’s top aides, including H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, served prison terms.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/washington/15libby.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1181882732-lc29z0QF8mVL1ngkSEaOCQ

[Gregorian]

1. That makes me feel like this---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYcZGPLAnHA&mode=related&search=

[DeepModem Mom]

2. That's wonderful, Gregorian! nt

[aquart]

3. Is it bitter, do you think? Knowing he's the only one caught?

[DeepModem Mom]

4. I'm wondering what is going on in his head. Cheney wonders, Fitz waits. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I'm hoping, he can still do the right thing

and perhaps get some leniency from the Judge... or do his full time at the pokey and get a radio show when he gets out

[Edweird]

5. If it looks like a convict and it walks like a convict..............

[Hekate]

6. As it happens, he IS a convicted felon.Time for it to sink in on him.

Given the overwhelming possibility that Libby will get a presidential pardon in the end, I wonder if the judge is trying to insure that he serves at least SOME of his sentence. Well, that and squeezing him to start his aria before the orchestra goes home.

Hekate