“Scooter” Libby, alias Irving Lewis Liebowitz—a Mossad Agent?
July 5th, 2007Libby a Long-Time Mossad Agent
by Wayne Madsen
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby has been a long-serving intelligence agent for
Israel’s Mossad, according to a veteran CIA “official cover” officer who
spoke to WMR on deep background. The CIA’s Clandestine Service has, over
the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Libby’s
activities on behalf of Mossad.
Libby served as the lawyer for Switzerland-based American fugitive
financier Marc Rich, aka Mark David Reich, who is also known to be an
Israeli intelligence asset and someone Israel relies upon for missions that
demand “plausible deniability” on the part of the Mossad. Rich heads up a
worldwide empire of dummy corporations, foundations, and numbered bank
accounts that have been involved in sanctions busting and weapons
smuggling. The nations involved include Israel, United States, United
Kingdom, Iran, Panama, Colombia, Russia, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), Cuba,
Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Bolivia, Jamaica, Bermuda, France, Italy, East
Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Australia,
Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Zambia, Sweden, Monaco, and apartheid South Africa.
In 1983, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York urged
jail time for Rich and his partner Pincus Green for racketeering. The name
of that U.S. Attorney is Rudolph Giuliani. Giuliani, who is now running for
president, praised Bush’s decision to commute Libby’s jail sentence. After
Clinton’s pardon of Rich, Giuliani said he was “shocked.” Paul Klebnikov,
the Moscow editor for Forbes’ Russian edition, wrote about the connections
of Rich to Russian gangsters like Boris Berezovsky, a business partner of
Neil Bush, in his book “Godfather of the Kremlin.” Klebnikov was shot to
death gangland-style on a Moscow street on July 9, 2004.
Libby not only provided the Mossad with a top agent inside the White House
but also an important conduit for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.
Libby arranged for Rich’s eleventh hour pardon by outgoing President Bill
Clinton in January 2001. The pardon of Rich was urged in a phone call to
Clinton by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as well as Shimon Peres
and Ehud Olmert.
Yesterday, Libby received a commutation of his 30-month prison sentence
from President George W. Bush. Libby was convicted on four counts of
perjury, lying to a federal law enforcement officer, and obstruction of
justice in the investigation by U.S. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald of
the White House’s leak to the media of the identity CIA non-official cover
officer Valerie Plame Wilson.
Libby was denied bail by U.S. Judge Reggie Walton and was ordered to prison
while appealing his sentence. Libby was assigned Bureau of Prisons inmate
number 28301-016.
Libby worked for Paul Wolfowitz in the State Department’s Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1982 to 1985. Libby again worked for
Wolfowitz in the Pentagon as the Principal Undersecretary for Strategy and
Resources. Libby later became the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for
Policy and served as a chief aide to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney.
It was while Libby was working for Wolfowitz at State, the FBI arrested
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who had delivered enough highly-classified
U.S. documents they could have entirely filled a garage. It was well known
that Pollard had a “control officer” within the Reagan administration. The
control officer was code-named “Mega.”
Current British Lord Chancellor and former British Foreign Secretary Jack
Straw said that during Middle East peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinians, “It’s a toss-up whether [Libby] is working for the Israelis
or the Americans on any given day.” Clinton’s Deputy Attorney General Eric
Holder told the House Government Affairs Committee in 2001 that he
discovered much more about Rich after Clinton’s pardon and said, “Knowing
everything that I know now, I would not have recommended to the president
that he grant the pardon.”
It has also been reported that, in addition to pressure from leading
neocons in the United States to keep Libby out of jail, Bush was urged by
leading Israeli government officials to prevent Libby from going to prison.
Fitzgerald issued the following statement regarding Bush’s commutation of
Libby’s prison sentence:
“We fully recognize that the Constitution provides that commutation
decisions are a matter of presidential prerogative and we do not comment on
the exercise of that prerogative.
We comment only on the statement in which the President termed the sentence
imposed by the judge as ‘excessive.’ The sentence in this case was imposed
pursuant to the laws governing sentencings which occur every day throughout
this country. In this case, an experienced federal judge considered
extensive argument from the parties and then imposed a sentence consistent
with the applicable laws. It is fundamental to the rule of law that all
citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals. That principle guided
the judge during both the trial and the sentencing.
Although the President’s decision eliminates Mr. Libby’s sentence of
imprisonment, Mr. Libby remains convicted by a jury of serious felonies,
and we will continue to seek to preserve those convictions through the
appeals process.”
Wayne Madsen is a veteran investigative journalist.