Judge won't delay 'Scooter' Libby's prison term

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Judge won't delay 'Scooter' Libby's prison term

Associated Press Published Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:42PM EDT

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WASHINGTON -

A federal judge said Thursday he will not delay a 2锟�-year prison sentence for I. Lewis "Scooter'' Libby, a ruling that could send the former White House aide to prison within weeks.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton's decision will send Libby's attorneys rushing to an appeals court to block the sentence and could force President Bush to consider calls from Libby's supporters to pardon the former aide.

No date was set for Libby to report to prison but it's expected to be within six to eight weeks.

That will be left up to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, which will also select a facility.

Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted in March of lying to investigators and obstructing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's inquiry into the 2003 leak of a CIA operative's identity.