Libby Or Liddy?

G.(eorge) Gordon Liddy and I.(rving) Lewis Libby share more than initials for given names. Scooter Libby worked in Leonard Garment's Philly law firm. Garment was the Trickster's lawyer at the end of his rope in 1974. What goes around, comes around. Let ol' Scooter turn slowly in the wind (like L. Patrick Gray); what the hell is it with these initials for given names with Republican true believers? Can Dub be far behind the Trickster in the grand scheme of things? If this is (fair & balanced) anticipation, so be it.

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Born Irving Lewis Libby, Jr. on August 22, 1950 in Connecticut, "Scooter" Libby is the current Chief of Staff to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and also serves as the Vice President's assistant for National Security Affairs. (According to Mr. Libby, he got his nickname the day his father watched him crawling across his crib and joked, "He's a Scooter!")

Rumors in Washington and current editoral speculation center around the possibility that either he or Karl Rove, the chief advisor to President Bush, may have been the administration official who "outed" Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent.

Most recently, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from prison after agreeing to testify before a grand jury investigating who in the Bush administration leaked the covert CIA operative's name. The release finally came after she obtained a waiver offered by her source.

The Times identified the source as Lewis Libby.

Sometimes referred to as a Washington enigma for the few details known about his personal life, Libby earned his BA from Yale and took his law degree at New York's Columbia University.

He later practiced law in Philadelphia, and subsequently accepted a job offer from his Yale political science professor, Paul Wolfowitz, to work at the State Department from 1981 to 1985.

He then entered private practice for several years before returning to Washington to work again under Wolfowitz at the Pentagon as principal deputy under-secretary of defense for strategy and resources.

For his government service Libby was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award and the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award. He also received the Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Award for Public Service.

During the Bill Clinton administration, Libby stayed on in Washington to serve as legal advisor for the House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China.

In 1995, he again left government service to become a managing partner at the the law firm of Dechert, Price and Rhoads, where he worked until 2001, when Vice President Cheney named him chief of staff and national security adviser.

In Washington circles, Libby is best known for his co-authoring the Project for the New American Century, promoting a more global role for the U.S. in the post-Cold War era stating that "American leadership is good both for America and for the world."

Libby is also the author of a successful novel, The Apprentice, published in 1996, about a group of strangers brought together inside a small inn while a blizzard rages outside.

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