Scooter Libby 1972 Yale Graduate- Acolyte of Professor Wolfowitz

[callady]

After graduating from Phillips Academy, an exclusive boarding school in Andover, MA, Libby graduated from Yale University in 1972, where one of his professors was Paul Wolfowitz, and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree Columbia University Law School in 1975. He also wrote The Apprentice, a novel published in 1996.

Libby was a founding member of the Project for the New American Century. He joined Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and others in writing its 2000 report entitled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century."

Libby co-authored the draft of the "Defense Planning Guidance" with Wolfowitz for then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney in 1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby

In 1992, while he was working under then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Libby co-wrote with Paul Wolfowitz a policy guidance aimed at formulating a post-Cold war defense posture. Upset by President H.W. Bush's decision to leave Saddam Hussein's regime in place after the 1991 Gulf War, Libby and Wolfowitz argued in a draft version of the Defense Policy Guidance that the U.S. should actively deter nations from "aspiring to a larger regional or global role," use pre-emptive force to prevent countries from developing weapons of mass destruction, and act alone if necessary. Although the draft guidance was quashed soon after it was leaked to the New York Times, many of its ideas--in particular, the doctrine of pre-emption--later found their way into President George W. Bush's national security strategy. The document also seems to have served as a template for the founding statement of principles of the Project for a New American Century, which was signed by a who's who list of hawks and neocons who now serve in the current administration, including Cheney, Libby, Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliott Abrams, Peter Rodman and Zalmay Khalilzad. (9)

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Rand Corporation: Member, Advisory Board of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (1)

Project for the New American Century: Signed PNAC's founding statement of principals and its August 1999 letter on the defense of Taiwan (8)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/libby/libby.php

It was also Libby who prodded former Secretary of State Colin Powell to include specious reports about an alleged meeting between 9/11 terrorist Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence official in Powell's February 2003 speech to the United Nations. Libby and his staff reportedly badgered Powell's speechwriters for weeks, culminating in a meeting where Libby presented information in a manner that, according to those who were there, was aggressive and over the top.

From Yale, Libby went on to Columbia Law School and then settled down to practice law in Philadelphia. His most famous client was Marc Rich, the fugitive financier and alleged tax evader who was pardoned by President Clinton during the last days of his administration. Clinton's pardon, which at the time drew heavy criticism from Republicans, was largely the result of legal arguments Libby had been making for 15 years.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=109719


To under stand Scooters role and significance it is vital to understand his alliance and allegiance to Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle:
Wolfowitz abandoned the Yale tenure track and threw himself into the practice of national security, moving back and forth between Defense and State. His earliest jobs were in the wonkish realm of policy analysis — gazing at the horizon. He had a knack for luring bright, opinionated thinkers, some of whom rank high in the current administration. Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, was captivated by Wolfowitz's political science course at Yale and worked for him at the in-house think tanks in both the State and Defense Departments. Condoleezza Rice's deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, who is chairman of an influential committee of cabinet deputies that meets several times a week on national-security issues, worked for Wolfowitz in the Cheney Defense Department and was a fellow Vulcan in the campaign.

http://www.why-war.com/news/2002/09/22/thesunsh.html

[ticapnews]

1. Another Bonesman...

If so, he will never say anything directing anyone towards the president. And the president is more likely to pardon him before he leaves office.

[callady]

2. Founding Member of PNAC

Along with Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Robert Kagan and others, Libby was a founding member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). He has served on the board of the Rand Corporation, owned shares in armaments companies and has oil interests. He also has been a consultant to Northrop Grumman, the defense contractor, and active in the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, formerly chaired by neocon extraordinare Richard Perle.

http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Sept_2004/0409018.html

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. Have you got any evidence for that?

Personally I think S&B is ridiculously overblown, but I've never heard Libby's name connected to it.

[callady]

5. Libby is not in S&B but is core member of neocon death cult

The Weird Men Behind George W Bush's War

By Michael Lind

04/07/03 "New Statesman (UK)" -- -- America's allies and enemies alike are baffled. What is going on in the United States? Who is making foreign policy? And what are they trying to achieve? Quasi-Marxist explanations involving big oil or American capitalism are mistaken. Yes, American oil companies and contractors will accept the spoils of the kill in Iraq. But the oil business, with its Arabist bias, did not push for this war any more than it supports the Bush administration's close alliance with Ariel Sharon. Further, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are not genuine 'Texas oil men' but career politicians who, in between stints in public life, would have used their connections to enrich themselves as figureheads in the wheat business, if they had been residents of Kansas, or in tech companies, had they been Californians.

Equally wrong is the theory that American and European civilisation are evolving in opposite directions. The thesis of Robert Kagan, the neoconservative propagandist, that Americans are martial and Europeans pacifist, is complete nonsense. A majority of Americans voted for either Al Gore or Ralph Nader in 2000. Were it not for the over-representation of sparsely populated, right-wing states in both the presidential electoral college and the Senate, the White House and the Senate today would be controlled by Democrats, whose views and values, on everything from war to the welfare state, are very close to those of western Europeans. Both the economic-determinist theory and the clash-of-cultures theory are reassuring: they assume that the recent revolution in US foreign policy is the result of obscure but understandable forces in an orderly world. The truth is more alarming. As a result of several bizarre and unforeseeable contingencies - such as the selection rather than election of George W Bush, and 11 September - the foreign policy of the world's only global power is being made by a small clique that is unrepresentative of either the US population or the mainstream foreign policy establishment.

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The core group now in charge consists of neoconservative defence intellectuals (they are called 'neoconservatives' because many of them started off as anti-Stalinist leftists or liberals before moving to the far right). Inside the government, the chief defence intellectuals include Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defence. He is the defence mastermind of the Bush administration; Donald Rumsfeld is an elderly figurehead who holds the position of defence secretary only because Wolfowitz himself is too controversial. Others include Douglas Feith, the number three at the Pentagon; Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, a Wolfowitz protege who is Cheney's chief of staff; John R Bolton, a right-winger assigned to the State Department to keep Colin Powell in check; and Elliott Abrams, recently appointed to head Middle East policy at the National Security Council. On the outside are James Woolsey, the former CIA director, who has tried repeatedly to link both 9/11 and the anthrax letters in the US to Saddam Hussein, and Richard Perle, who has just resigned from his unpaid defence department advisory post after a lobbying scandal. Most of these 'experts' never served in the military. But their headquarters is now the civilian defence secretary's office, where these Republican political appointees are despised and distrusted by the largely Republican career soldiers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10804.htm

[Nikki Stone 1]

6. So this is why Scott Ritter says they are "not Americans"?

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[tanyev]

3. Kick.

[bluedawg12]

7. They all follow Leo Strauss Univ. of Chicago,

one of the fthers of the neocon movement.

check wikipedia on this. interesting stuff.

[callady]

8. That's right

Wolfowitz earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago, a seedbed of what is now called neoconservative thinking in economics, political science and strategic studies. His mentor there was Albert Wohlstetter, perhaps the most influential thinker about military strategems of the nuclear age and godfather of the anti-detente school during the cold war.

This indictment must be placed in context of the group of vulcans in which Libby was only a small part.

• 1990 When Hussein invaded Kuwait, Cheney was secretary of Defense and Libby was a deputy to Paul Wolfowitz, then undersecretary of Defense for policy.  Cheney and Libby were skeptical of the CIA.    

• 1991  Cheney / Libby clashed with CIA over credibility of Chalabi and INC

• Soon after Sept 11, 2001, Libby "began routinely calling intelligence officials, high and low, to pump them for any scraps of information on Iraq", Interactive Investor

A very good, if a little cluttered timeline here:http://www.newsfollowup.com/leakgate1.htm

[bluedawg12]

9. This proves repugs believe in RECYCLING their trash! LOL n/t