Scooter Libby Love Letters

[cui bono]

SEE THEM HERE:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0605071libby1.html

Washington elite petition judge on behalf of convicted Cheney aide

JUNE 5--Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Paul Wolfowitz, and John Bolton top the list of individuals who wrote a federal judge on behalf of former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for lying to investigators and a federal grand jury examining the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. On the following 30 pages you'll find an assortment of letters from former colleagues and friends of Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. The letters, which do not include a missive from Cheney himself, were filed this morning in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.. Included in the correspondence is a letter on former Cheney aide Mary Matalin's stationery which is signed by her and husband James Carville, the Democratic strategist. Others writing on Libby's behalf included Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Richard Perle, former Pentagon adviser; James Woolsey, ex-CIA director; Douglas Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense; Christopher Cox, ex-congressman and current Securities and Exchange Commission chairman; Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic; former Richard Nixon counsel Leonard Garment; former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson; former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky; former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard Myers; and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a National Institutes of Health official. Of the 198 letters sent to Judge Reggie Walton, 174 referred positively to Libby, while the balance urged Walton to throw the book at the convicted felon. (30 pages)

DUMP: Click here <link on The Smoking Gun site> for a 373-page PDF of all the Libby sentencing letters.

[mod mom]

1. They are not ALL love letters. I sent Judge Walton a letter, it's 1 of the 150 and...

it's DEFINITELY NOT a love letter!

[cui bono]

3. Oh c'mon... you know you want him.

;)

[mod mom]

4. Yeah, I want him...

behind bars before * can pardon him!

[cui bono]

5. Let's hope he doesn't get to stay out during appeals.

[soothsayer]

2. Rummy says he has worked in the military as well as gov. Has he?

[spindrifter]

6. He was an undersecretary for defense

at the Pentagon under Wolfie in 1989 per his wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby#Background

I can't find anything that says he was actually serving in the military, just working in a political appointment position.