- I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been a long-serving
intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to a veteran CIA "official
cover" officer who spoke to WMR on deep background. The CIA's Clandestine
Service has, over the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence
on Libby's activities on behalf of Mossad.
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- Libby served as the lawyer for Switzerland-based American
fugitive financier Marc Rich, aka Mark David Reich, who is also known to
be an Israeli intelligence asset and someone Israel relies upon for missions
that demand "plausible deniability" on the part of the Mossad.
Rich heads up a worldwide empire of dummy corporations, foundations, and
numbered bank accounts that have been involved in sanctions busting and
weapons smuggling. The nations involved include Israel, United States,
United Kingdom, Iran, Panama, Colombia, Russia, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein),
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- Cuba, Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Bolivia, Jamaica, Bermuda,
France, Italy, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Kazakhstan, Philippines,
Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Zambia, Sweden, Monaco, and apartheid
South Africa.
- In 1983, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District
of New York urged jail time for Rich and his partner Pincus Green for racketeering.
The name of that U.S. Attorney is Rudolph Giuliani. Giuliani, who is now
running for president, praised Bush's decision to commute Libby's jail
sentence. After Clinton's pardon of Rich, Giuliani said he was "shocked."
Paul Klebnikov, the Moscow editor for Forbes' Russian edition, wrote about
the connections of Rich to Russian gangsters like Boris Berezovsky, a business
partner of Neil Bush, in his book "Godfather of the Kremlin."
Klebnikov was shot to death gangland-style on a Moscow street on July 9,
2004.
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- Libby not only provided the Mossad with a top agent inside
the White House but also an important conduit for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.
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- Libby arranged for Rich's eleventh hour pardon by outgoing
President Bill Clinton in January 2001. The pardon of Rich was urged in
a phone call to Clinton by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as well
as Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert.
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- Yesterday, Libby received a commutation of his 30-month
prison sentence from President George W. Bush. Libby was convicted on four
counts of perjury, lying to a federal law enforcement officer, and obstruction
of justice in the investigation by U.S. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald
of the White House's leak to the media of the identity CIA non-official
cover officer Valerie Plame Wilson.
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- Libby was denied bail by U.S. Judge Reggie Walton and
was ordered to prison while appealing his sentence. Libby was assigned
Bureau of Prisons inmate number 28301-016.
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- Libby worked for Paul Wolfowitz in the State Department's
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1982 to 1985. Libby again
worked for Wolfowitz in the Pentagon as the Principal Undersecretary for
Strategy and Resources. Libby later became the Deputy Undersecretary of
Defense for Policy and served as a chief aide to Defense Secretary Dick
Cheney.
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- It was while Libby was working for Wolfowitz at State,
the FBI arrested Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who had delivered enough
highly-classified U.S. documents they could have entirely filled a garage.
It was well known that Pollard had a "control officer" within
the Reagan administration. The control officer was code-named "Mega."
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- Current British Lord Chancellor and former British Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw said that during Middle East peace talks between Israel
and the Palestinians, "It's a toss-up whether [Libby]
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- is working for the Israelis or the Americans on any given
day." Clinton's Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told the House
Government Affairs Committee in 2001 that he discovered much more about
Rich after Clinton's pardon and said, "Knowing everything that I know
now, I would not have recommended to the president that he grant the pardon."
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- It has also been reported that, in addition to pressure
from leading neocons in the United States to keep Libby out of jail, Bush
was urged by leading Israeli government officials to prevent Libby from
going to prison.
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- Fitzgerald issued the following statement regarding Bush's
commutation of Libby's prison sentence:
- "We fully recognize that the Constitution provides
that commutation decisions are a matter of presidential prerogative and
we do not comment on the exercise of that prerogative.
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- We comment only on the statement in which the President
termed the sentence imposed by the judge as 'excessive.' The sentence in
this case was imposed pursuant to the laws governing sentencings which
occur every day throughout this country. In this case, an experienced federal
judge considered extensive argument from the parties and then imposed a
sentence consistent with the applicable laws. It is fundamental to the
rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals.
That principle guided the judge during both the trial and the sentencing.
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- Although the President's decision eliminates Mr. Libby's
sentence of imprisonment, Mr. Libby remains convicted by a jury of serious
felonies, and we will continue to seek to preserve those convictions through
the appeals process."
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