From the Belfast Telegraph: Lewis “Scooter” Libby, once chief of staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, has been jailed for 30 months for perjury and obstructing justice in the CIA leak case.

The sentence is bound to generate demands from conservatives for George Bush to issue a politically controversial presidential pardon to a leading architect of the Iraq war.

Libby’s punishment, which also includes a $250,000 fine, was at the upper end of expectations. He is the most senior official of any administration in two decades to face a prison term, and – albeit indirectly – the first senior Bush policymaker to be convicted of charges stemming from the war.

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WIRED: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has proposed legislation that would make the DMCA look almost just. Among other things, the law would make attempted infringement a crime, and send some infringers to jail for life.