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Title: Libby a long-time Israeli intelligence agent
Source: Wayne Madsen Report via LF
URL Source: http://www.libertyforum.org/showfla ... &view=&sb=&o=&part=1&vc=1&t=-1
Published: Jul 3, 2007
Author: Wayne Madsen
Post Date: 2007-07-05 10:19:52 by Eoghan
Ping List: *Israeli Espionage*
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Views: 4145
Comments: 14

Jul 3, 2007

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.

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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#5. To: Eoghan (#0)

It's all falling into place now. In a recent column, Justin Raimondo pointed out that Libby was Marc Rich's attorney (making Clinton's phony indignation even more completely ridiculous). Given Rich's close ties to Israel, that made me wonder if there's more to the Libby matter than meets the eye.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2007-07-05   11:23:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Rupert_Pupkin, Eoghan, noone222 (#5)

His name should actually be Irving Lewis Leibowitz so it should be no surprise that he has ties to the Moassad and to Russian Jewish gangsters. When the Soviet Union collapsed 250 billion dollars was stolen from pensions funds and state owned companies. That money was given to 9 men of which 8 were Jewish and to the NY FED, the big NY banks and to the Harvard Endowment.

Horse  posted on  2007-07-05   11:41:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Horse (#7) (Edited)

Christopher Wolf, the lawyer who originally represented Wilson and Plame in their suit against Libby et al., has apparently ceased his representation of them, and their lawyer is now Erwin Chemerinsky.

According to his Wikipedia entry, Wolf is also "chairman of the International Network Against Cyber-Hate (INACH) and the Anti-Defamation League's National Committee on the Internet. He chairs the ADL Technology Committee and previously was reginal chair of the Washington, DC ADL Board (1998 - 2002) as well as the national ADL Strategic Planning Committee."

I wonder what the substance was of the disagreement between Wolf and the Wilsons.

aristeides  posted on  2007-07-05   11:51:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: aristeides (#9)

I wonder what the substance was of the disagreement between Wolf and the Wilsons.

Perhaps a surprising choice to begin with.

robin  posted on  2007-07-05   11:55:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: robin (#11)

Wolf lived next door to the Wilsons before they moved to Santa Fe. He may have been careful to insinuate himself as their lawyer.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if that may have been one of the reasons the Wilsons moved to Santa Fe, so that they would no longer be living next door to him.

aristeides  posted on  2007-07-05   11:58:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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