[Marxism] Scooter Libby love letters

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

Scooter Libby Love Letters
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.

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