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Libby Establishes a Fund to Help Pay Legal Bills
New York Slimes ^ | 11-09-05 | NYT

Posted on 11/09/2005 6:56:26 AM PST by keithtoo

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is establishing a fund to help pay for his legal defense in the C.I.A. leak case, and associates of Mr. Libby have begun soliciting money from his friends and Republican donors, lawyers and people who have been contacted about the fund said on Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; cialeak; defensefund; leak; libby; plame; wilson
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I couldn't find a URL on where to donate. If you can, please post it here.
1 posted on 11/09/2005 6:56:27 AM PST by keithtoo
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To: keithtoo

Leave it to the Slimes to 'accidentally' leave off the url.


2 posted on 11/09/2005 6:58:09 AM PST by RushCrush
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To: keithtoo

Why doesn't he just ask Marc Rich for a loan?


3 posted on 11/09/2005 6:59:19 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: keithtoo
Libby Establishes a Fund to Help Pay Legal Bills

Hey, Libby, why don't you call your former client Marc Rich? I'm sure he can spare a few bucks.

4 posted on 11/09/2005 6:59:22 AM PST by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: keithtoo

Between his past support for the Dems and his dirty book, I'm not inclined to help pay for his defense.


5 posted on 11/09/2005 7:01:16 AM PST by Mercat (God loves us where He finds us.)
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To: keithtoo

I guess he spent the 2 million he got from Marc Rich.


6 posted on 11/09/2005 7:04:47 AM PST by doesnt suffer fools gladly (Rush Limbaugh fanatic)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
"I guess he spent the 2 million he got from Marc Rich."
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Why did the VP hire this guy?? Big time DC politics makes me sick. Whats up with Cheney so called hatred by the left yet he has let them into the top spots?? The truth about our GOP leaders is getting clearer they cannot hide that the voters are fooled every election..the elites march on.
7 posted on 11/09/2005 7:16:13 AM PST by ConsentofGoverned (if a sucker is born every minute, what are the voters?)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
"The defense, led by two attorneys from prestigious law firms, will be pricey. Theodore V. Wells Jr., a partner in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has represented such well-heeled clients as Philip Morris and such politicians as former labor secretary Raymond Donovan and Clinton agriculture secretary Mike Espy. William Jeffress Jr., out of the storied Houston oil law firm of Baker Botts, comes highly recommended as the man who got public officials off on such charges as money laundering and vote buying. It doesn't hurt that Jeffress works for a law firm whose senior partner is James Baker, the Bush family confidant who handled the 2000 Florida vote count case that won Bush the presidency, and who had served the elder Bush as secretary of state."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0545,ridgeway,69778,6.html
8 posted on 11/09/2005 7:17:22 AM PST by MilleniumBug
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To: keithtoo
Not a dime. Any hangerson in Washington that is stupid twice needs to go to jail.

Libby was dumb enough to chat off the record with MSM, arrogantly thinking he was USING them, which never happens. Then he had the arrogance to lie under oath. Put the loser in jail.

9 posted on 11/09/2005 7:21:41 AM PST by cynicom
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To: keithtoo

I'll wait a bit to see which side he's really on...now.

Two strikes against him, agreed but he could still prove to be faithful to Conservatives. Here's hoping.


10 posted on 11/09/2005 9:36:12 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: MilleniumBug

Thanks for the info - we could always send donations directly to the law firms.


11 posted on 11/09/2005 9:52:35 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: keithtoo; BurbankKarl

I can find the URL on the net either. a thread like this with the address was pulled last time, I copied it down, but do not know if it is correct.


12 posted on 11/09/2005 9:54:01 AM PST by oceanview
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To: dirtboy

I'm an attorney, so take the following with a grain of salt - you can't judge a book by it's cover - you also think Saddam's lawyers deserved to be killed?


13 posted on 11/09/2005 9:54:10 AM PST by clawrence3
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I'm an attorney, so take the following with a grain of salt - you can't judge a book by it's cover - you also think Saddam's lawyers deserved to be killed?

No.

However, I question why a lawyer dealing with the likes of Marc Rich, who actively subverted American interests, was given a position of responsibility in Cheney's office.

14 posted on 11/09/2005 9:56:04 AM PST by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: keithtoo

all these people here who are trashing Libby - if he rolls on Cheney, you'll all be sobbing.

The indictment against him was BS, no underlying crime was committed, I for one support Libby and his right to a fair trial - and in our system, "fair" means you've got to have $$$s for defense lawyers.


15 posted on 11/09/2005 9:56:24 AM PST by oceanview
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To: oceanview

"all these people here who are trashing Libby - if he rolls on Cheney, you'll all be sobbing."


Maybe Cheney should pick up the tab.


16 posted on 11/09/2005 10:01:31 AM PST by RWE
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To: oceanview

If we can't find it anywhere, I would suggest mailing it to Libby c/o his attorney.

They really need to get a hold of witnesses that Plame's name was public knowledge (at least in D.C.): Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WABC Radio's John Batchelor that during a 2002 conversation with Wilson while the two waited to appear on a TV show, Wilson casually mentioned that his wife worked at "the Agency." In Oct. 2003, NBC's diplomatic correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, told CNBC that Plame's occupation "was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger." Mitchell added: "So a number of us began to pick up on that."

And in Sept. 2003, NationalReviewOnline's Cliff May wrote that when Plame's CIA connection was mentioned in Novak's column - "That wasn't news to me . . . I had been told that [Plame was CIA] - but not by anyone working in the White House. Rather, I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhand manner, leading me to infer it was something that insiders were well aware of."

The day his report appeared, May told the Fox News Channel's John Gibson: "I knew this, and a lot of other people knew it."

In fact, rumors now swirl around Washington that Plame used to take her friends to lunch at the CIA's cafeteria.


17 posted on 11/09/2005 10:03:36 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: dirtboy

Well, sure - you can question it, but not to the point of trashing him for ONE client out of thousands I would imagine.


18 posted on 11/09/2005 10:08:32 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: RWE

I agree that Cheney should pick up the tab - if not, however, may I suggest we chip in?


19 posted on 11/09/2005 10:09:25 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: keithtoo

Although I don't want to create an accouting nightmare, if we really can't find the web site to donate, how about just send it here:

I. Lewis Libby Jr. Defense Fund
c/o Theodore V. Wells Jr.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6064


20 posted on 11/09/2005 10:16:37 AM PST by clawrence3
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