Asgeir Valur SigundssonRe: [LEAK-GATE] Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter"Fri Oct 3 15:03:21 200364.140.158.6-------- Original Message --------Subject: Re: [LEAK-GATE] Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" LibbyDate: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:22:33 -0800From: "Asgeir Valur Sigundsson" matrixs@mi.is To: APFN@apfn.org Sir! Why canīt the public of America simply demand the CIA be shut down, since people are so unhappy with the agency? The same could be done with the FBI, all of them, and new agencies formed. CIA is important of course - but look at all the money that could be used. Governments canīt react to immenient danger - in my view, if immenient danger is present to a country, itīs existing government must dissolve, and itīs military, intelligence communities and other forces must dissolve also, and let the citizens deal with the terror. That is the best way to deal with all forms of terror, otherwise we will be having marshall laws well into the 23rd century. The most powerful weapon against all secret societies has always been complaint and contempt. But most importantly, complaint. Complain! But do not contempt openly. regards, matrixs@mi.is ----- Original Message -----From: APFNTo: American Patriot Friends NetworkSent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:42 PMSubject: [LEAK-GATE] Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" LibbyCLICK: Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-gate Leaker — Justin Raimondo http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=44987;title=APFNWHY CONGRESS IS COVERING UP!He also served as the Legal Advisor to the House of Representatives'Scooter Libby -- White HouseAssistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice PresidentMost recently, Scooter Libby was Managing Partner of the Washington office of theinternational law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads. He also served as the LegalAdvisor to the House of Representatives' Select Committee on U.S. NationalSecurity and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China,commonly known as the "Cox Committee." Scooter has held a variety of positionsat the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Department of Defense. His previousgovernment position was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Scooteris a graduate of Yale University and received his J.D. from Columbia.Contact: 202-456-9000 http://www.results.gov/leadership/bios/libbys.html Attorney General Is Closely Linked to Inquiry Figures — NY Times, Fri Oct 3SEE ADD'L POSTINGS HERE:http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/149495.html[LEAK-GATE] Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=45002;title=APFNENVAX@ENVAX.NET WROTE:Some Iraq Analysts Felt Pressure From Cheney VisitsFri Oct 3 02:50:15 200364.140.158.48Some Iraq Analysts Felt Pressure >From Cheney Visits(snip)Former and current intelligence officials said they felt a continual drumbeat, not only from Cheney and Libby, but also from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Feith, and less so from CIA Director George J. Tenet, to find information or write reports in a way that would help the administration make the case that going into Iraq was urgent. http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/7-26-03/discussion.cgi.64.html Securing Iraqi oil for Israel: The plot thickens(snip)The INC’s relationship with the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is of particular significance. It has been developing for a decade. JINSA has close ties with the Pentagon and US defense companies and counts among its board such prominent figures as Vice-President Dick Cheney, his chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and the eminence grise of the pro-Israel neoconservatives, Richard Perle, recently forced to step down as chairman of the Pentagon’s influential Defense Policy Board because of his business interests. Retired US General Jay Garner, who has been tasked with overseeing the reconstruction of Iraq, has traveled with JINSA groups to Israel and supported the organization’s agenda. http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/4-27-03/discussion.cgi.17.html THE PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/5-09-03/discussion.cgi.9.html Special investigation: The spies who pushed for war http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/7-17-03/discussion.cgi.6.html Secret report undercuts Iraq connection to WTC(snip)"Democrats refused to address the threat. Now they're trying to undermine the rationale for it," she said. "They don't want the Iraqi angle coming out, because they failed to address it – and 3,000 Americans died."Hard time getting publishedMylroie lists Clare Wolfowitz, wife of the No. 2 Pentagon official, among her friends in her book's Acknowledgments. She also gives a nod to John Bolton, one of the State Department's biggest Iraq hawks, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, whose wife also is an AEI scholar.The conservative think tank is a hotbed of Iraq hawks known as "neocons." They include Irving Kristol, father of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen.Mylroie's book was first published in 2000 by AEI Press. http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/8-03-03/discussion.cgi.31.html How neo-cons influence the Pentagon http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/8-10-03/discussion.cgi.68.html =====================LOTS MORE AT: http://slate.msn.com/id/2085803/ The first draft of Powell's speech was written by Cheney's staff and the National Security Council. Days before the team first gathered at the CIA, a group of officials assembled in the White House Situation Room to hear Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, lay out an indictment of the Iraqi regime—"a Chinese menu" of charges, one participant recalls, that Powell might use in his U.N. speech. Not everyone in the administration was impressed, however. "It was over the top and ran the gamut from al Qaeda to human rights to weapons of mass destruction," says a senior official. "They were unsubstantiated assertions, in my view."Powell, apparently, agreed. So one week before he was to address the U.N. Security Council, he created a team, which set up shop at the CIA, and directed it to provide him with an intelligence report based on more solid information. ... The team, at first, tried to follow a 45-page White House script, taken from Libby's earlier presentation. But there were too many problems—some assertions, for instance, were not supported by solid or adequate sourcing, several officials say. Indeed, some of the damning information simply could not be proved.Sound familiar?If Libby is PB, it's unlikely he acted without strong encouragement from Cheney. In addition, Chatterbox's friend Jason Vest, who writes about national security for The Nation and the Village Voice, urges Chatterbox not to forget that National Security Council staff aide Robert Joseph would be a logical person to have worked closely with Libby on this. Judging from the questions at today's White House press briefing, Joseph is the White House press corps' No. 1 suspect. (Weirdly, Libby's name never came up.) It's previously been reported that Joseph had a role in the negotiations between the White House and the CIA over putting yellowcake into the speech. Note this snippet by David Sanger and James Risen, from the July 12 New York Times:Before the speech, the crucial conversations between the C.I.A. and White House over whether to include the African reference in the State of the Union address were held between Robert G. Joseph, a nuclear proliferation expert at the National Security Council, and Alan Foley, a proliferation expert at the C.I.A., according to government officials.There is still a dispute over what exactly was said in their conversations. Mr. Foley was said to recall that before the speech, Mr. Joseph called him to ask about putting into the speech a reference to reports that Iraq was trying to buy hundreds of tons of yellowcake from Niger. Mr. Foley replied that the C.I.A. was not sure that the information was right.Mr. Joseph then came back to Mr. Foley and pointed out that the British had already included the information in a report. Mr. Foley said yes, but noted that the C.I.A. had told the British that they were not sure that the information was correct. Mr. Joseph then asked whether it was accurate that the British reported the information. Mr. Foley said yes.Other government officials said, however, that Mr. Joseph did not recall Mr. Foley's raising any concerns about the reliability of the information. If he had, they said, Mr. Joseph would have made sure that the reference was not included in the speech.Conceivably, Joseph would have been acting on his own (assuming Foley's version is the correct one). But knowing how fully engaged Libby was in collecting and assessing Iraq intelligence, Chatterbox has a hard time imagining Libby would have stayed away. Remember: Nobody had an inkling at the time that this would cause any controversy. So Chatterbox is going to guess that Scooter is PB.LOTS MORE: http://slate.msn.com/id/2085803/ =====================Scooter Libby -- White HouseAssistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice PresidentMost recently, Scooter Libby was Managing Partner of the Washington office of the international law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads. He also served as the Legal Advisor to the House of Representatives' Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, commonly known as the "Cox Committee." Scooter has held a variety of positions at the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Department of Defense. His previous government position was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Scooter is a graduate of Yale University and received his J.D. from Columbia.Contact: 202-456-9000 http://www.results.gov/leadership/bios/libbys.html IN THE CASE OF THE LEAKED CIA EMPLOYEE'S NAME — Nancy Allen, Fri Oct 3 15:08 LEAKGATE - PART I — Robert Sterling, Fri Oct 3 15:41 LEAKGATE - PART II — Robert Sterling, Fri Oct 3 15:45 LEAKGATE - WHO LEAKED? (CLICK) — Justin Raimondo, Fri Oct 3 15:54 libby? — lll, Sat Oct 4 14:08 BUSH, "F**K LEAKGATE" — differentstrings, Fri Oct 3 17:30 fineman's take — lll, Sat Oct 4 13:59
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