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More than two-thirds of Americans say former administration official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby doesn't deserve a presidential pardon, and a majority say Vice President Dick Cheney probably was involved in trying to cover up who leaked the name of a CIA operative to the news media, a CNN poll shows.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans said President Bush shouldn't pardon Libby, the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll showed.

Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, was found guilty March 6 of obstruction of justice and perjury during an investigation into who disclosed the identity of Central Intelligence Agency official Valerie Plame in 2003. Eighteen percent said Bush should pardon Libby.

Some of Libby's supporters, such as former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, are urging Bush to pardon Libby. Bush has refused to comment on the issue and last week said he would "stay out of it" until the case runs its course. Libby's lawyers have said they will file motions for a new trial.

The CNN poll found that 52 percent of Americans say they believe Cheney was part of a cover-up to prevent the special prosecutor from getting to the truth about who leaked Plame's name to the news media. Twenty-nine percent said they didn't think he was part of a cover-up, and 19 percent said they weren't sure. Cheney wasn't charged.

No one was prosecuted under the law that makes it a crime to purposely unmask a covert operative. Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in July 2003 publicly accused the administration of twisting intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. Evidence presented at Libby's trial suggested the administration was seeking to discredit Wilson by naming his wife as CIA employee.

The poll also showed Cheney with a 34 percent job approval rating and Bush with a 37 percent approval rating.

The poll of 1,027 adult Americans, conducted by telephone March 9-11, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3, or 4.5 percentage points, depending on the question.