Who is Scooter Libby (as in past history, career, jobs, etc.)?

[hopein08]

This isn't a rhetorical question where I launch into my lengthy opinion on who he is and why. That's what I'd like others to do. I don't know much about the guy. What did he do before he became Cheney's other half? Who does he know that got him is job? Is there anything shadowy he's been involved in before? Personally, I think he looks creepy. Perhaps even creepier than Rove. Anyway, I'd greatly appreciate any help that you all can give me!!!

[orpupilofnature57]

1. One of Trickie Dickies racketeers, watergate without a Media!!

[AirAmFan]

2. Try this google search and post what you find:

' scooter libby site:rightweb.irc-online.org '.

http://rightweb.irc-online.org appears to be a progressive site set up for just the purpose you described. I just found it tonight and started a William Bennett thread based on it--see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4953265
.

I'm not sure who they are, but they do GREAT profiles of many right-wing extremists, providing LINKS to their sources along the way.

[newswolf56]

4. Thank you for posting this link: I did not know of it and...

based on surfing its website will find it invaluable.

[Emit]

9. I use them frequently

They have quite a collection on rightwing players, including a great deal of info on neocons, etc.

FYI, Noam Chomsky is on their Board:

http://www.irc-online.org/BoD/index.php

[riverwalker]

3. He is very secretive and paranoid

about his private life. No personal info available anywhere, no wife, no kids. What is he so afraid of? I still think he was Gannon/Guckert's sugardaddy.

[earthboundmisfit]

5. I wonder how he got the nickname "Scooter"?

Does he scoot a lot? Does he scoot up, back, over, or does he just scoot?

[Child_Of_Isis]

13. Maybe he needs his anal glands depressed. eom

[hopein08]

16. Ask and you shall be answered!

...Mr Libby (who earned his nickname as a hyperactive infant)...

from the so kindly provided Guardian linkhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1582354,00.html

[earthboundmisfit]

18. Thanks!

:)

[marions ghost]

6. One of "The Vulcans" (!?)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1582354,00.html

Lewis 'Scooter' Libby
by Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday October 1, 2005
The Guardian

Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been called Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney: a constant presence behind the scenes enforcing loyalty providing the means to meet his boss's ends. Mr Libby (who earned his nickname as a hyperactive infant) played a central role in compiling the White House's allegations of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, travelling with the vice-president to the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, several times in 2002 to chivy sceptical agency analysts.

Before Colin Powell made his fateful presentation of the WMD case to the UN in February 2003, it was Mr Libby who tried to persuade the former secretary of state to include controversial reports that Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11 hijackers, had met an Iraqi agent in Prague. Mr Powell rejected the claims but Mr Libby did not give up, telephoning him late into the night on the eve of the presentation, calling for the inclusion of other allegations.

Mr Libby also contacted the Pentagon before a substantial contract to repair Iraq's oil fields was awarded to Halliburton, Mr Cheney's old firm. And he talked to Time magazine's Matt Cooper and the New York Times's Judy Miller in July 2003 about the identity of a CIA undercover agent, Valerie Plame who was the wife of a prominent administration critic.

He joined the Bush administration along the same path followed by many influential officials. After taking a political science class at Yale given by Paul Wolfowitz, the current head of the World Bank, he became part of a network of neo-conservatives known as "the Vulcans". Mr Wolfowitz later persuaded him to drop his private law practice and join the Reagan administration. He moved from the state department to the Pentagon under the first President Bush, where a policy paper he wrote calling for the US to build up its military strength to the point where it could not be challenged, caught the eye of the then defence secretary, Mr Cheney.

[Catchawave]

7. Try:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby

[David Briggs]

8. wiki to the rescue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby

[newyawker99]

19. Hi David Briggs!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Jacobin]

10. He's an original signer of the PNAC document

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

[november3rd]

11. I. Lewis Libby

Read between the lines.

http://fpc.state.gov/8488.htm

This Right Web page is a little more interesting:

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/libby/libby.php

I also think Libby is influenced a lot by this guy:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/marshall.html

[Lars39]

12. He looks like a totally debauched toga-wearing ancient Roman.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Can anyone post a pic of the loser?

I keep hearing how bad he looks (egads-worse than CHENEY?), but I've never seen little scooter. He must look really, really bad.

[hopein08]

15. Check out the wiki links for a pic (the only one I've seen)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby

It's got a pic.

[senseandsensibility]

17. Thanks (I think)

I know I asked for it....but I may have trouble sleeping tonight. :scared:

[chat_noir]

20. pics

http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.aspx