CBS Evening News - 2007-03-06

Name: CBS Evening News - 2007-03-06
Uploaded: 2025-02-01
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[0:01] I'm Katie Couric. Guilty. Scooter Libby

[0:04] is convicted in the CIA leak case. The

[0:07] highest-ranking White House official

[0:08] found guilty of a felony since the

[0:11] Iran-Contra scandal.

[0:14] In Iraq, the horror continues. Suicide

[0:17] bombings kill more than 100 Shiite

[0:19] pilgrims in a procession and nine more

[0:22] American soldiers.

[0:24] What state is paying homeowners

[0:25] thousands of dollars to help fight

[0:27] global warming? The first in our series,

[0:30] global warming cool solutions.

[0:33] And she's sleepless in New Jersey. Why

[0:35] so many American women these days are

[0:38] sleep deprived?

[0:44] This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[0:47] Couric.

[0:49] Hello everyone. After 10 days of

[0:51] deliberations, a federal jury in

[0:53] Washington convicted Vice President

[0:55] Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis

[0:57] Scooter Libby, of four criminal charges

[0:59] in the CIA leak case. Libby is the

[1:02] highest-ranking White House official

[1:04] convicted of a felony in two decades. On

[1:07] one count of obstructing justice,

[1:09] guilty. On one count of lying to the FBI

[1:12] about a conversation with NBC's Tim

[1:14] Russert, guilty. On two counts of

[1:16] perjury for lying to a grand jury about

[1:18] conversations with Russert and other

[1:20] reporters, guilty. Gloria Borger begins

[1:23] our coverage of the verdict and the

[1:25] fallout.

[1:27] It was a verdict that shook the White

[1:29] House and ground zero was Dick Cheney's

[1:31] office.

[1:31] And the results are actually sad. It's

[1:34] sad that we had a situation where a

[1:36] high-level official, a person who worked

[1:37] in the office of Vice President,

[1:39] obstructed justice and lied under oath.

[1:42] We wish that it had not had happen that

[1:43] h