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Deported Army veteran, pardoned by Jerry Brown, will become US citizen
He had a DUI conviction in 2001. In 2002, he pleaded no contest to shooting at an occupied vehicle and served more than a year in prison, the report said. He was then deported to Mexico in 2004.




“That was 15 years ago, the incident. I’m more mature now, older. We all make mistakes,” he said, according to the Times. “I’m almost 100 percent sure I’m not going to make a mistake as stupid as that was, putting myself in a situation.”

“That was 15 years ago, the incident. I’m more mature now, older. We all make mistakes.”

- Hector Barajas, deported U.S. Army veteran pardoned by California's governor
In 2010, he returned unlawfully to the U.S., but was deported again in 2011, the Daily News reported.


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"The Libby pardon is only the latest twist in a story of spies, leaks, accusations of hidden motives and abuse of power. In pardoning Libby, Trump, who complains almost daily about leaks, is in the peculiar position of pardoning a man convicted of involvement in a national-security leak."
 
Wez said:
"The Libby pardon is only the latest twist in a story of spies, leaks, accusations of hidden motives and abuse of power. In pardoning Libby, Trump, who complains almost daily about leaks, is in the peculiar position of pardoning a man convicted of involvement in a national-security leak."
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He was convicted of perjury. He lied to investigators.
Richard Armitage was the source of the leak to Robert Novack.
I don't think anyone was charged with leaking the information.
 
Lion Eyes said:
He was convicted of perjury. He lied to investigators.
Richard Armitage was the source of the leak to Robert Novack.
I don't think anyone was charged with leaking the information.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby#Indictment_and_resignation

"The indictment alleges that statements to federal investigators and the grand jury were intentionally false, in that Libby had numerous conversations about Mrs. Wilson's CIA employment, including his conversations with Judith Miller (see above), before speaking to Russert; Russert did not tell Libby about Mrs. Wilson's CIA employment; prior to talking with such reporters, Libby knew with certainty that she was employed by the CIA; and Libby told reporters that she worked for the CIA without making any disclaimer that he was uncertain of that fact."
 
Wez said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby#Indictment_and_resignation

"The indictment alleges that statements to federal investigators and the grand jury were intentionally false, in that Libby had numerous conversations about Mrs. Wilson's CIA employment, including his conversations with Judith Miller (see above), before speaking to Russert; Russert did not tell Libby about Mrs. Wilson's CIA employment; prior to talking with such reporters, Libby knew with certainty that she was employed by the CIA; and Libby told reporters that she worked for the CIA without making any disclaimer that he was uncertain of that fact."
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The Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal and Plamegate) was a political scandal that revolved around journalist Robert Novak's public identification of Valerie Plame as a covert Central Intelligence Agencyofficer in 2003.[1][2][3]

In 2002, Plame wrote a memo to her superiors in which she expressed hesitation in recommending her husband, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson, to the CIA for a mission to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had arranged to purchase and import uranium from the country, but stated that he "may be in a position to assist".[4] After President George W. Bush stated that "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Wilson published a July 2003 op-ed in The New York Times stating his doubts during the mission that any such transaction with Iraq had taken place.[5]

A week after Wilson's op-ed was published, Novak published a column which mentioned claims from "two senior administration officials" that Plame had been the one to suggest sending her husband. Novak had learned of Plame's employment, which was classified information, from State Department official Richard Armitage.[2] David Corn and others suggested that Armitage and other officials had leaked the information as political retribution for Wilson's article.

The scandal led to a criminal investigation; no one was charged for the leak itself. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to investigators. Libby was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2018 years after having his prison sentence commuted by President George W. Bush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
 
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