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  1. A conversation about Dick Cheney with Lewis Libby
    A conversation about Dick Cheney with Lewis Libby

    with Lewis Libby on Mar 7, 2002

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Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Jr. is an American lawyer and former senior White House official.

Libby was the Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, assistant to the Vice President for national security affairs, and an assistant to President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2005. He left his post in 2005 after being indicted on five felony counts (one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of making false statements, and two counts of perjury) by a U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel as part of the CIA leak grand jury investigation, a federal inquiry “into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee’s identity”. In 2007, he was convicted of four of the five counts, making him the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted in a government scandal since Ronald Reagan’s National Security Advisor John Poindexter in the Iran-Contra Affair.

Outside of his government work, Libby is also a published author. In 1996 he published a novel entitled “The Apprentice”. It concerns a group of travelers stranded in northern Japan in the winter of 1903 during a smallpox epidemic.

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