Dangerous David Rivkin on C-Span II. What a history this man has.

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he is a lawyer, he helped get Alberto Gonzales nominated, and he has a past as tawdry and filthy as one can imagine.
This man is now on C-Span II supporting expansion of executive powers, including domestic wiretaps.

http://www.balkanpeace.org/cib/cro/cro07.shtml


Some snippets:

David Rivkin, the American attorney who until recently represented Croatia before the Hague Tribunal, was spying for Franjo Tudjman. Rivkin delivered to the late President confidential information and he relayed the contents of confidential docuements which he learned of in Washington. In addition, he informed Tudjman of the contents of what William Montgomery, American ambassador to Croatia, was writing in his confidential reports to the State Department. This was confirmed by a transcript, found in the presidential archives on Pantovcak, of a recorded conversation between Franjo Tudjman and his advisor for internal policy Ivic Pasalic. This conversation was held on June 21, 1999, and began with Pasalic’s verbal report concerning the American delegation which was to visit Dubrovnik and the place where the late American Minister of Commerce Ron Brown was killed in a plane crash. Pasalic actually convinced Tudjman, as the transcript bears witness, to receive this delegation in the Presidential Court, regardless of whether Robert Gelbard was to be a part of the delegation or not. In vaguely promising that Gelbard might be among Tudjman’s guests, Pasalic managed to extort a positive answer from the President. At that point, the advisor stated his desire to be present to witness the signing of a document, likely a pre-contractual agreement, between Croatian Electric and Enron. The conversation then continued on the theme of the Hague Tribunal and Montgomery’s alleged conspiracy against the HDZ regime and Tudjman himself. "David Rivkin was here last week. He claims, Rivkin, this lawyer, he has good connections, especially with the Americans - that according to his information, after all that’s happened, that these in the Hague can no longer attack you directly.


Espionage fees

After he convinced Tudjman to dedicate a meeting of the National Security Council (VONS) to this theme, Pasalic concluded their meeting by informing against Drago Krpina, then Chief Secretary for HDZ. He accused Krpina of usurping all of the power in the party, and for going behind Pasalic’s back in making decisions, as an act of retaliation for Pasalic not supporting Krpina’s appointment to the post of party secretary. In other words, the transcript from June 21, 1999 finally fully explains the enigma surrounding Rivkin; why the Republic of Croatia under the HDZ government never signed any normal contracts and why his price tag of 10 million dollars was declared a state secret. It is completely logical that spies are not paid according to official attorney rates and that the users of such services do not sign formal contracts with their spies. From the transcript it is further evident that Rivkin is a liar. When Nacional published an article over a year ago concerning his ties to Enron, Zdenka Gast and Ivic Pasalic, Rivkin denied everything, claiming among other things, that he barely knew Pasalic. This transcript proves that exactly the opposite was true, and that Pasalic was the first person to whom he relayed that contents of Montgomery’s reports to the American administration. The transcript also proves that Rivkin was much more successful at spying in his own country than in the Hague. Even though he stated that Louise Arbour’s last mission prior to leaving her post as Chief Prosecutor would be to lift indictments against Croatian generals, those indictments still have not been made today, one year later. It is worthwhile noting that Rivkin had been frightening Tudjman with these indictments since 1997.