. 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.
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),
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.
Libby not only provided the Mossad with a top agent inside the
White House but also an important conduit for the
Russian-Israeli Mafia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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] 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."
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.
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.
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.
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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