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Cheney aide Libby indicted, resigns

WASHINGTON: I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, a top aide of U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, resigned on Friday after being indicted by the Special Prosecutor on five counts in a case of leaking of a CIA agent's identity. Libby, Mr. Cheney's Chief of Staff, has been accused of lying to federal agents and perjury.

The five count indictment of 55-year-old Libby — two each for perjury and making false statements and one count for obstructing justice — has come about as a result of Patrick Fitzgerald's two year investigation — PTI

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