35 Facts About Scooter Libby

From 2001 to 2005, Libby held the offices of Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States, and Assistant to the President during the administration of President George W Bush.

In October 2005, Libby resigned from all three government positions after he was indicted on five counts by a federal grand jury concerning the investigation of the leak of the covert identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame Wilson.

Scooter Libby was born to an affluent Jewish family in New Haven, Connecticut.

Scooter Libby's father, Irving Lewis Leibovitz, was an investment banker.

Scooter Libby's father changed his family original surname from Leibovitz to Libby.

Scooter Libby graduated from the Eaglebrook School, in Deerfield, Massachusetts, a junior boarding school, in 1965.

Scooter Libby served as vice president of the Yale College Democrats and later campaigned for Michael Dukakis when he was running for governor of Massachusetts.

Scooter Libby was prosecuted as I Lewis Libby, known as "Scooter Libby".

At times, including in the Yale Banner, and as documented in a federal directory cited by Ron Kampeas and others, Scooter Libby has used the suffix Jr.

At other times as listed in his federal indictment and United States v Libby, which give his alias as Scooter Libby, there is no Jr.

Scooter Libby was admitted to the bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on October 27,1976, and to the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on May 19,1978.

Scooter Libby practiced law at Schnader for six years before joining the US State Department policy planning staff, at the invitation of his former Yale professor, Paul Wolfowitz, in 1981.

In 2001 Scooter Libby left the firm to return to work again in government, as Vice President Cheney's chief of staff.

Fugitive billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich, who, along with his business partner Pincus Green, had been indicted of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran, and who, with Green, was ultimately pardoned by President Bill Clinton, was a client whom Leonard Garment had hired Scooter Libby to help represent around the spring of 1985, after Rich and Green had first engaged Garment.

Scooter Libby stopped representing Rich in the spring of 2000; early in March 2001, at a "contentious" Congressional hearing to review Clinton's pardons, Scooter Libby testified that he thought the prosecution's case against Rich "misconstrued the facts and the law".

The Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals recommended disbarment upon confirmation of his conviction, which Scooter Libby initially indicated that he would appeal.

On December 10,2007, Scooter Libby's lawyers announced his decision "to drop his appeal of his conviction in the CIA leak case".

In 1981, after working as a lawyer in the Philadelphia firm Schnader LLP, Scooter Libby accepted the invitation of his former Yale University political science professor and mentor Paul Wolfowitz to join the US State Department's policy planning staff.

From 1982 to 1985, Scooter Libby served as director of special projects in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Bush administration, Scooter Libby was confirmed by the US Senate as deputy under secretary of defense for policy, serving from 1992 to 1993.

In 1993 Scooter Libby received the Distinguished Service Award from the US Defense Department and the Distinguished Public Service Award from the US State Department before resuming private legal practice first at Mudge Rose and then at Dechert.

Scooter Libby joined Wolfowitz, PNAC co-founders William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and other "Project Participants" in developing the PNAC's September 2000 report entitled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century".

At various points in his career, Scooter Libby has held positions with the American Bar Association, been on the advisory board of the RAND Corporation's Center for Russia and Eurasia, and been a legal adviser to the United States House of Representatives, as well as served as a consultant for the defense contractor Northrop Grumman.

Scooter Libby serves as a member of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, a group that encourages and advocates changes to government policy to strengthen national biodefense.

Between 2003 and 2005, intense speculation centered on the possibility that Libby may have been the administration official who had "leaked" classified employment information about Valerie Plame, a covert Central Intelligence Agency agent and the wife of Iraq War critic Joseph C Wilson, to New York Times reporter Judith Miller and other reporters and later tried to hide his having done so.

My notes do not show that Mr Scooter Libby identified Mr Wilson's wife by name.

Pursuant to the grand jury investigation, Scooter Libby had told FBI investigators that he first heard of Mrs Wilson's CIA employment from Cheney, and then later heard it from journalist Tim Russert, and acted as if he did not have that information.

On June 5,2007, after the announcement of Scooter Libby's sentencing, CNN reported that Scooter Libby still "plans to appeal the verdict".

Scooter Libby's attorneys asked that the order be stayed, but Walton denied the request and told Scooter Libby that he would have 10 days to appeal the ruling.

On June 20,2007, Scooter Libby appealed Walton's ruling in federal appeals court.

Mr Scooter Libby was sentenced to thirty months of prison, two years of probation, and a $250,000 fine.

Scooter Libby paid the required fine of "$250,400, which included a 'special assessment' of costs" that same day.

Scooter Libby was part of a larger group of individuals who had their voting rights restored by McDonnell, all of whom were non-violent offenders.

Scooter Libby sent Libby off to [meet with former New York Times reporter] Judith Miller at the St Regis Hotel.

At that meeting, the two-hour meeting, the defendant [Scooter Libby] talked about the wife [Plame].