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I. Lewis Libby
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I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is a lawyer and currently Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
"Sometimes called 'Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney,' Libby is an important foreign policy adviser inside the White House and is seen a possible successor to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice." [1]
Libby started his government career in the State Department in 1981 under President Ronald Reagan. He has also, at various times in his long career, held positions with the American Bar Association, the Rand Corporation, the Department of Defense, and the United States House of Representatives (as a Legal Advisor).
Libby graduated from Yale University in 1972, where one of his professors was Paul Wolfowitz and from Columbia University's law school in 1975. He also wrote The Apprentice, a novel published in 1996.
After graduating from law school, Libby went to work as a lawyer in Philadelphia, then got a job offer from Wolfowitz, now the deputy defense secretary. In 1981, Mr. Libby went to work for Mr. Wolfowitz at the State Department, then left in 1985 to go into private practice.
Libby has been identified as a...longtime lawyer for Marc Rich per antiwar.com and CNN.
Before joining the White House staff, "Scooter Libby was most recently managing partner of the Washington office of the international law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads. He also served as Legal Advisor to the House of Representatives' Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, commonly known as the Cox Committee. [2]
Libby has held a variety of positions at the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Department of Defense. His previous government position was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He is a graduate of Yale University and received his J.D. from Columbia." [3]
Libby, a neo-conservative, and there is intense speculation about the possibility that he may have been the administration official who "outed" Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent for political gain, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.The grand jury investigating the Plame leak has yet to hand down any indictments. His current office in the Old Executive Office Building was Theodore Roosevelt's when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
