Posted on 11/03/2005 12:18:18 AM PST by ajolympian2004
Did Scooter Libby worked for Marc Rich? Yes.
Did Scooter Libby congratulate Rich on his pardon from Clinton in 2001? Yes.
Did Scooter Libby receive $2,000,000 in legal fees from Rich? Yes.
Wow.
GO here to download and view the video:
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/11/02/richlibbyconnection/ (windows media player)
Tell us what the video says. This is a tease story without much content.
I can't watch it here from work. It was reported on Fox News. Looking for the story there. The comments under the graphic are those of Ian Scwartz of Political Teen.
If this is true the proverbial "fan" was just obliterated!
This video is from the O'Reilly Factor yesterday (Wednesday 11/2).
Just beautiful... the Vice President's chief of staff worked for Marc Rich, a borderline 'traitor' to our country. Just bleeping beautiful...
The question is whether Libby just handled a single case or was he on retainer to Marc Rich?
Since Libby was a high profile DC attorney, he probably had a few undesirable clients as well as quite a few upstanding ones.
That said, it was a poor choice for Cheney to keep him on staff, given Libby's past professional relationship with such a notorious character as Marc Rich. But that is a political decision, not an ethical breach.
Yes, a very poor political decision indeed and quite embarrassing for VP Dick Cheney, IMHO.
Interesting dynamic on whether the MSM will even mention this now that they are in full defense posture in order to protect the Clintons from any negative stories as Hillary is preparing to run.
Do we potentially hurt the Clintons by bringing up Marc Rich again? Or embarrass Dick Cheney?
Neither can his failed novel The Apprentice which is set in a remote Japanese province in the winter of 1903.
Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, “turds,” armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, “At length he walked around to the deer’s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer’s nostrils.”
Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the “mound” of a little girl. The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a “pink underlip,” arm muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers). The cast includes a dwarf, and an “assistant headman” who comes to restore order after a crime at the inn.
When it comes to depicting scenes of romance, however, Libby can evoke a sort of musty sweetness; while one critic deemed “The Apprentice” “reminiscent of Rembrandt,” certain passages can better be described as reminiscent of Penthouse Forum. There is, for example, Yukiko’s seduction of the inexperienced apprentice:
He could feel her heart beneath his hands. He moved his hands slowly lower still and she arched her back to help him and her lower leg came against his. He held her breasts in his hands. Oddly, he thought, the lower one might be larger. . . . One of her breasts now hung loosely in his hand near his face and he knew not how best to touch her.
Other sex scenes are less conventional. Where his Republican predecessors can seem embarrassingly awkward—the written equivalent of trying to cop a feel while pinning on a corsage—Libby is unabashed:
At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.
And, finally:
He asked if they should f@ck the deer.
And the answer was "yes".
Not exactly the type of novel you would want on your child's summer reading list.
Jim Pinkerton has been excellent on this connection between Libby and Rich.
He has written a few columns and appeared on Fox.
All I can say is that anyone involved with Marc Rich in anyway should never ever be welcomed into a Republican administration. This political decision to appoint Scooter Libby as his chief-of-staff is a total embarrassment for VP Dick Cheney, IMHO. I could honestly care less what his reasoning was for hiring Libby.
That Scooter was one of Rich's attorneys was one of the talking points about him not being a smear monger, and him not being stupid.
But to think that this is startling is a Farce. After all he is a lawyer. He just found a place of prominence under cheney who figured he was a good guy, which I find impossible, since he is a lawyer. The difference between a whore and a lawyer, is that a whore won't get into bed with EVERYBODY that crosses their path.
But to think that this is startling is a Farce. After all he is a lawyer. He just found a place of prominence under cheney who figured he was a good guy, which I find impossible, since he is a lawyer. The difference between a whore and a lawyer, is that a whore won't get into bed with EVERYBODY that crosses their path.
After finding out about this earlier this morning I have absolutley ZERO trust in Scooter Libby. It's good that he's gone so President Bush can hopefully move forward with the nation's business.
"border line traitor"? He profited from trading with and enriching Iran while they held American hostages and chanted "Death to America". What does a person have to do to be more than a borderline traitor?
After reading the review of that book, the man needs some professional help.
Ok, "traitor", then. I am not well versed in every detail regarding Marc Rich, so I left a sliver of leeway.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney entertain Chief of Staff for the Vice President Lewis Libby (left) and his wife Harriet Grant (second on right---in brown top, black pants) and former Vice President Dan Quayle (right) and his wife Marilyn Quayle (second on left) in the first floor library at the Naval Observatory Dec. 4, 2001.
Libby's spouse is Harriet Grant, a Democrat, who was General Counsel to the Judiciary Committee when it was chaired by Joe Biden. Probably part of the Democrat attack machine that slimed Clarence Thomas during his nomination hearings. The Libby's dinnertime conversation must have been interesting. It's not at all reassuring to authentic conservatives that Libby and spouse were hostile to the social conservative agenda, while Libby was holding power in a conservative admin.
Libby and spouse would never, ever deign to consort with the rabble----rabble like pro-lifers, the no gay marriage crowd, churchgoers, Bible believers, Ten Commandments adherents. You know......the 62 million American values voters who voted for Bush.
Notice how this type has a disconcerting way of popping up whenever a conservative president takes office. They grab whatever top positions they can get their hands on, ones that have veto power over policy-making decisions. Once they get the power, they run off and play in their natural habitat, with the liberal crowd.
Libby represented Marc Rich, one of the most notorious organized crime figures in the world, the man who renounced his American citizenship to evade prosecution, and while on the run, systematically looted post-Soviet Russia and was buddies with the notorious oligarchs in corrupt deals.
Libby's $2M legal defense of Rich paid off with a pardon for Rich in the midnight hours of the Clinton Administration.
And yet, within hours, Libby immediately moved into the crucial position of chief-of-staff to Vice-President Cheney, and admitted he called Rich to congratulate him on the pardon. Rich must have been gratified to know he had a friend smack dab in the corridors of power.
Having a foot in both political camps, although totally unprincipled, is very handy to push a hidden agenda.
Even scarier, Libby, embedded as Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, was a sub rosa power in shaping the Bush administration's policies and helped build the case for the Iraq invasion. A "specialist" in national security, Libby had logged long hours in his office near the West Wing of the White House, steeping himself in subjects like "counterterrorism, bioweapons defense and energy policy."
Libby held three titles: (1) chief of staff, (2) national security adviser to the vice president, and (3) assistant to President George W. Bush -- a sign of his broad influence.
Looks like, for some, Libby's links to Marc Rich made him Most Likely to Succeed, enhanced his job prospects, and made Libby largely immune to criticism.
American Prospect magazine revealed in August 2005 that Libby had testified that he met with NY Times reporter, Judith Miller, on July 8, 2003 and discussed Plame with her at that time. Miller was jailed on 6 July 2005 for contempt of court after refusing to testify to the grand jury about this meeting despite a signed blanket waiver from Libby allowing journalists to discuss their conversations.
Miller has argued that Libby's waiver to all journalists may well have been coerced and that she would only testify if given an individual waiver, which Miller received while serving her sentence.
The waiver was offered "voluntarily and personally" by Libby, accompanied by his letter which has raised eyebrows because of Libby's hinting as to what he expects from her testimony, and a poetic and cryptic ending which has been the subject of much speculation.
Libby: "As noted above, my lawyer confirmed my waiver to other reporters in just the way he did with your lawyer. Why? Because as I am sure will not be news to you, the public report of every other reporter's testimony makes clear that they did not discuss Ms. Plame's name or identity with me, or knew about her before our call......
"You went to jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work—-and life. Until then, you will remain in my thoughts and prayers. With admiration, Scooter Libby." [Emphasis added.]
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Sure doesn't sound like something a conservative would write, now does it? And don't you just love Libby's gratuitous reference to the "Iranaian nuclear program." Clearly Libby was setting Miller up to push his agenda. Talk about agitprop. Guy's a master proselytizer.
Question: Did Libby tell President Bush about "his" plans before he told Miller, and the media?
Back in 2001, the Burton committee was supposedly jolted when Democrats called Libby, vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, to the witness stand regarding the catastrophic last-minute Clinton pardon of Marc Rich. Libby testified that not only did he approve of the pardon, within hours, as the Bush admin took over, Libby actually called Rich to offer his congratulations the moment he heard the news.
Not exactly something a true blue conservative would do, is it? And obviously, Libby's defense of the pardon nicely exonerated Clinton. Makes you wonder which side this guy is on.
I guess Marc Rich must have been gratified to know he had a "friend" in the new Bush administration, right smack dab in the VP's office.
Having a foot in both political camps, although totally unprincipled, is so handy, especially if you are a traitor and a convicted tax cheat. Shucks, Rich must be really peeved that Libby got indicted, and is gone from the WH.
OTOH, knowing Rich's friend in the Bush administration is gone sure makes authentic, true blue conservatives feel really good.
Most importantly, we need to determine how badly Libby hurt President Bush.
Hmmmmm. Why am I not surprised that certain "factions" are now attacking a loyal Bush team member and the right-hand man to Dick Cheney, before he has even had a chance to defend himself in court. My my how quickly the worms turn. Especially when a Jewish connection can be made...eh? It's all about the Jews, is it?
The amazing corrollary of this story--to me, at least--is that anyone even remotely connected (professionally or otherwise) with the conservative base might not have a light go off before writing such garbage---you know the, "Hey, I wonder if this will be good for my political/public service career."
IOW, this garbage is so natural to them, they seem oblivious to how it might be received and how it might reflect upon them in the political arena.
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