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Scooter Libby & Friends: The Neocon Legal Defense Fund

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When I first heard about www.ScooterLibby.com, I thought that John Aravosis had bought the URL address and done something fun with it.

But, it's genuine Scooter -- and it's good for some laughs.

Libby has launched a vanity site soliciting donations for his legal defense against 5 indictments brought by Patrick Fitzgerald in the Valerie Plame investigation.

On other fronts, TWN is off to Casper, Wyoming to speak to the Casper Committee on Foreign Relations tomorrow.

More soon.

-- Steve Clemons

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Posted by joe Feb 23, 5:35AM - Link

It was surprising to see Francis Fukuyama on the Advisory Committee.

Posted by profmarcus Feb 23, 8:49AM - Link

the worst part is that the website also offers endorsements from dick cheney, george bush, paul wolfowitz and brit hume as well as regular email updates... i would assume that an "endorsement" can be construed to mean that the endorser considers scooter to be innocent, and that donating to his legal defense fund would therefore be a worthy cause...

god, i'm so tired of repeating myself but, here goes... every single time i think i've seen the ultimate in over-the-top crap from bushco, they go and out-do themselves yet again... absolutely and positively disgusting (not the legal defense fund per se but definitely the endorsements)...

http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/

Posted by rogersm0 Feb 23, 9:17AM - Link

Our government and our people are in such a bad and dangerous state of mind. I blame the aging baby boomers, because non-political interested people get more conservative as they get older. This wouldn't be a problem if the shear volume of baby boomers wasn't so disproportionate to the rest of society.

We need to cut off the social security quick, it's not like you guys didn't squander it, the quicker we can rebalance the age demographics the sooner we get a real government.
(this poster doesn't not endorse this message)

Posted by Pissed Off American Feb 23, 9:31AM - Link

Interesting that there is no way to e-mail them except in the form of a donation. A shame really.

But hey, maybe I will send the piece of garbage enough for a pack of smokes, (or perhaps a pamphlet on safe sex), if by some miracle he ends up in prison. But this is Bushworld, so that will undoubtedly never occur. He will probably end up with a medal, a six figure job on Bush's staff, and a bestseller.

Posted by Buce Feb 23, 10:02AM - Link

Old timers will remember with a sense of irony the way Dean Acheson nearly destroyed his career by refusing to turn his back on his old friend Alger Hiss. And with Biblican support, yet.

Posted by Michael Roston Feb 23, 10:12AM - Link

Heya Steve -

More on the Scooter Defense Fund here:

http://lookingforsomeonetolietome.blogspot.com/

Posted by Patience Feb 23, 10:58AM - Link

To me, the most ironic thing of all is that the chief of staff of the most secretive vice president in American history is now basing his defense on an effort to get hundreds of pages of material declassified.

(See http://www.scooterlibby.com/news/Read.aspx?ID=76)

Posted by Jim Ramsey Feb 23, 11:18AM - Link

The joys of whois. A whois scooterlibby.com yields this information:

Administrative Contact:
Blank Rome, LLP
Barbara Comstock (comstock@blankrome.com)
....

It looks like http://www.blankromegovernmentrelations.com/
is a lobbying firm.

Posted by Texas Dem Feb 23, 11:25AM - Link

Good to see Mary Matalin on the list of "advisors," in light of how well she recently advised the VP regarding his shooting accident. [NOTE to Scooter: stock up on the K-Y.]

Posted by mpower1952 Feb 23, 11:49AM - Link

I'm usually not this devious, but what if we all donated just one cent on our credit cards. Libby's fund, oops, trust would be charged more than that to process the transaction.

Posted by vachon Feb 23, 11:52AM - Link

Nup, this isn't a vanity site. These people don't do anything without a political calculator.

Having your name associated with a contribution to this defense fund is a relatively cheap commercial and establishes bonifides for future business relationships. It may also gear up later for jury influencing.

Posted by rogersm0 Feb 23, 2:39PM - Link

Barbara Comstock is a former employee of the United States Department of Justice. She is a conservative, and strongly supports the USA PATRIOT Act as well as conservative judicial appointments. She has repeatedly appeared on CNN and other major American networks. She appeared in the documentary Celsius 41.11.

Posted by JS Feb 23, 2:55PM - Link

Most of the upcoming baby-boomers are pot-smokin hippies from the 60's anti-war, anti-establishment movements.

Posted by ManagedChaos Feb 23, 3:25PM - Link

What a great list of Neo-Con Zionist traitors. Just makes it easier to identify targets for tar and feathering.

I am also surprised that Fukuyama is still on that list.

Steve, please read Fukuyama's most recent article, "After Neoconservativism", if you haven't already.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/neo.html

As a patriotic American Jew and a New Yorker, I feel these Neo-Con Zionist traitors are the biggest threat to this country and to the world. They create their own boogeymen and the justifications needed to deal with these boogeymen.

Problem-Reaction-Solution

911 was an inside job

Posted by Hedley Lamarr Feb 23, 5:19PM - Link

Mary Matalin's name is there because she gets .05 cents on each dollar contributed so she can pay for the new face lift. Surely we taxpayers didn't pay for it?...

Posted by Shawn in RI Feb 23, 6:40PM - Link

And most importantly...

There's a Casper Committee for Foreign Relations?

Posted by AlanDownunder Feb 23, 11:18PM - Link

rogersm0,

I think you'll find that the shear volume of male baby boomers has declined significantly. That said, you spell better than you think.

Posted by David Feb 24, 6:14AM - Link

I notice that on the Scooter site, the initial message is signed by an "Ambassador Mel Sembler" -- is he the same as the Mel Sembler who goes by the nickname "Dis" -- Mel "Dis" Sembler?

Posted by rogersm0 Feb 24, 10:59AM - Link

Alan - Hey I won't deny that Baby boomers did great things for America in their younger days. After the 80s the first 'ME' generation has mostly made a mess of things, not to mention the baby boomers systemic inability to raise a family, or commit to a relationship. My generation could care less if gay people got married, but baby boomers, the generation that effectively ended marriage is up in arms about gay people getting married.

In the end the rest of the nation will have to carry the burden of the late-life failures of the baby boomers, ultimately we will be picking up the peices of the first selfish generation for decades.

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