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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Leave it to the Slimes to 'accidentally' leave off the url.
Why doesn't he just ask Marc Rich for a loan?
Hey, Libby, why don't you call your former client Marc Rich? I'm sure he can spare a few bucks.
Between his past support for the Dems and his dirty book, I'm not inclined to help pay for his defense.
I guess he spent the 2 million he got from Marc Rich.
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.
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.
Thanks for the info - we could always send donations directly to the law firms.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Well, sure - you can question it, but not to the point of trashing him for ONE client out of thousands I would imagine.
I agree that Cheney should pick up the tab - if not, however, may I suggest we chip in?
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
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