Letters Cast Light on Cheney's Inner Circle

Source: Washington Post

Dozens of Prominent Figures and Insiders Praise Libby as Fundamentally Decent

By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 6, 2007; Page A06

For nearly seven years, the office of the vice president has been a virtual black hole for information about the Bush administration. But yesterday, a series of letters aimed at securing leniency for Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, provided a small, if selective, window on the world of Cheney and his aides.

Lewis A. Hoffman, the vice president's White House physician, asked Judge Reggie B. Walton to understand "the mindset that was pervasive" in the vice president's office after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and the "real fear about what the future held."



Former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger is among the letter writers who vouched for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Kissinger noted that precise recollection of events is difficult in a White House job. (By Chris Kleponis -- Bloomberg News)

"I can tell you for certain that Mr. Libby worked himself to exhaustion day after day," Hoffman wrote in a letter dated April 26. "This is a testimony to his devotion to our nation and the Vice President. I also believe that such continuous stress and total exhaustion is just the setting where a person might honestly confuse what he said to who on what day."

Elizabeth A. Denny, who worked with Libby as the vice president's social secretary, wrote that her "heart broke" the day Libby walked out of the White House after his indictment on perjury charges in 2005. "I could feel a vacuum sucking the wind out of our office, out of the White House," she said. "I could feel his absence immediately in a very large way. I still can't figure it out."



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Fundie, mentally? :think:

should be going to prison as well, some of them just because they're fucking ugly.

:puke:

It might be the Vortex of Doom, lady.

Just askin'.

--Bart Simpson


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What bastards. I wish he'd turn on them. I wonder how stubborn Scooter can be that he doesn't see how they've abused him and his family.

Miller was about. He knew then that he was going to have to fall on his sword for Cheney, and by extension, for Bush. He had been set up, almost from the beginning to take the fall. It had to be someone fairly high up the food chain (but not too high) and it couldn't be Karl and no one else would either do it and allow it to be done to them. So the aspens have turned and Scooter gets measured for an orange jumpsuit. He doesn't have to worry about his future, it is assured - as long as he keeps his mouth shut and can avoid being shivved in the showers...

he knows that there's a payoff in the end. it's just a waiting game now.

Rove? Cheney?

I'm not sure I'd want Kissinger vouching for me. "Stay off my side!"

But the original betrayal is all Cheney's. I'm also betting that Karl and W will throw Cheney to the wolves, if it comes to that. In fact, I'm counting on it!

If I'd ever seen any evidence of it.

"I can tell you for certain that Mr. Libby worked himself to exhaustion day after day."

Lots of crooks work themselves to exhaustion in the course of their crimes. Libby is not so different from the rest.

These letters are more proof that to these people THE PARTY, right or wrong, is more important than the Country. One of the Republican candidates called Mr. Bush the 'head of the party' in the last debate. Notice he didn't say 'the head of the country'. And that's been the problem all along. Loyalty to the Party over loyalty to the Country.

It's time we begin describing this administration as one dominated by a cult of personality. To use 'devotion' seems to imply a fervor bound by blindness. Just as Monica G. stated her desire and yearning to 'serve this president and administration' rather than the nation. The cult of personality allows the believer to live in a fog in which only the idol worshiped is seen. All else is unimportant.

Randi read a section on the air yesterday from his sick, twisted novel --

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110901896.html

Fine outstanding life Libby has led. Makes one wonder when someone writes about bestiality, pedophilia and rape.

about the sentence handed down.

If Libby can't be kept out of prison then how am I going to be able to get away with breaking federal law. It just isn't right that I can't take advantage of my position of power.