Scooter Libby
The former U.S. ambassador's wife at the time, Valerie Plame, was outed as a CIA agent shortly after he spoke out on the Iraq invasion.
The president continues a pattern of granting a politically oriented pardon after major news breaks in the federal investigation into his campaign and Russia.
The former ambassador and his wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame, were at the center of the Libby case. She says Trump's basis for the pardon is "simply false."
Libby was convicted of lying about how he learned of a CIA agent's identity.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Libby was charged in an investigation into who leaked a covert CIA agent's identity to journalists.