Secret files reveal that former Bush official was advising the Gaddafi regime

[thewiseguy]

Secret files obtained from Tripoli headquarters of Libya's intelligence agency, shattered by NATO air-strikes, included startling evidence indicating that top U.S. officials offered aid and advice to Moammar Gaddafi since the beginning of the Libyan public's protest.

Al Jazeera news producer, Jamal Elshayyal, obtained the exclusive evidence recently, which indicated that the Gaddafi regime maintained direct communications with top U.S. officials.

According to the Al Jazeera report, David Welch, former assistant secretary of state under George W. Bush, met with Gaddafi's officials at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, a few blocks from the U.S. embassy on Aug. 2, 2011 to advise Gaddafi's team on how to win the propaganda war and to suggest several "confidence-building measures."

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/207622/20110902/libya-nato-secret-files-muammar-al-gaddafi-barack-obama-lobbying-intelligence-agency-syria-israel-al.htm

I would love to know on whose behalf was David Welch meeting and advising Gaddafi?

[Cirque du So-What]

1. On whose behalf?

Offhand, I'd say the neocons, who are more interested in protecting oil interests than human rights.

[thewiseguy]

3. David Welch was the person who signed the US-Libya Claims Settlements Agreement

and later Bush signed an executive order restoring Libyan government's immunity from terror related lawsuits.

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

Me thinks David Welch was getting paid by the Gaddafi regime back then and now.

[notadmblnd]

2. isn't that- like against the law?

[Kennah]

4. A Bush spokesperson responds, "And?"