ABOUT SCOOTER LIBBY:

Libby, who's held more titles than a small town Library, served mostly, until his resignation, as vice presidential chief of staff. He's been called Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney - an strange little man managing just about every detail of Cheney's professional life and career since he was hired.

Libby was indicted on five counts of criminal charges by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the investigation into the leaked identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Libby is very nearly the king of the white-collar criminals, if you don't count Ken Lay, and as Bush would say, "Ken WHO?"

For the past four-and-a-half years, Libby has been squishing from one scandal to the next, while assuming the role of a low key player.

Libby has been in the middle of many other huge national security scandals of the Bush cabal, including the Iraq intelligence pack of lies, the secret awarding of Halliburton no bid contracts, and countless others we have yet to hear of.

Some say it was Libby - along with Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Bolton, and many other top aides at the Pentagon or White House - all aiming to convince Bush that the U.S. should attack Iraq. Whether it was Libby or Cheney who pushed to publicly argue that Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaeda and 9/11, we may never know.

Libby and his staff were like pitbulls, hounding Powell's speechwriters, to gain access to a meeting where Libby was reported to relay information that was so over the top that papers were thrown into the air in frustration.

Intelligence analysts examined Libby's "proof" and were stunned, they basically tossed it into "file 13", the waste basket. But this didn't stop Libby, who was so driven that he called Powell's staff at night before the fateful speech to demand that he include new information. No one bothered to tell Powell that "curveball", the Iraqi insider and spy, was a total joke until after the speech.

He's still known to his family and friends as "Scooter" (Really, who the hell calls themselves Scooter after the age of four?), and as an undergraduate at Yale he took a political science class from Wolfowitz, where he fell in love with the PNAC mindset. (Project for a New American Century - basically a 6th Reich "domino theory on steroidal technology)

From Yale, Libby went on to Columbia Law School and then settled down to practice law in Philadelphia where he protected white-collar criminals from those evil liberal judges who rule from the bench. Later one of his clients was even pardoned by President Clinton.

Wolfowitz invited Libby to work in the Reagan administration, so Libby pounced on the offer and worked in the State Department. When Bush Senior was in charge, Libby migrated to the Defense Department, which is interesting as once Bolton was installed in the State Dept, he began demanding raw data, and came up with his own plans considered so lunatic that they were thrown in the trash as well. He was rewarded with his post at the UN for his nutty theories.

Once in the Defense Dept Libby coined a broad new Defense Planning Guidance document to reorient U.S. global military policy which called for the United States to build up its military capabilities to the point where no other country could ever rival them. This had been done before, but Hitler had run out of gas, literally, and had his ass handed to him by the Good Guys, US - before these Bad Guys got into our precious White House and govt.

So much for any shred of diplomacy.

Cheney, who was then secretary of defense, decided that taking over the world might be a fun thing. He'd wanted to do it before but Bush Senior was "old school" and actually believed that you should work with the other countries in the world to some degree. Libby and Cheney had no such "faults" as Bush Senior, brutal and bloodthirsty chickenhawks were setting the stage to rule the planet - oh, for the sake of "freedom" of course.

Within the Bush administration, Cheney and Libby's roles could be seen to be almost interchangable, hence the Cheney's "Cheney" nickname - and with the awarding of at least one no-bid, multi-million dollar contract to Halliburton you can be sure that Libby was endearing himself to Cheney. Remember, Cheney is STILL collecting stock from Halliburton - how much we may never know, until we get enough democrats in the House and Senate to Impeach both him and Bush.

For months, Cheney's office denied any role in the selection of Halliburton to repair Iraq's oil fields.

Libby had been illegally briefed by Pentagon officials before the awarding of the contract, and as usual corruption reared it's ugly head. Of course Libby knew all about the deal but he wasn't talking.

Well, he's talking now. At least he was talking to the Grand Jury and curiously enough they didn't believe him, so now he's facing the potential of many lonely years in prison.

We're sort of hoping that he'll have a room mate that testosterone challenged, by over production, and wishes to act out scenes from Libby's fairly sexually sick book, over and over.

But the best scenario of all of course would be Scooter Libby telling the world everything he knows about Dick Cheney's deals, all of them, in excruciating detail. The way that Fitzgerald works, that could just happen.

Libby is a good start, now let's move up the chain of command and clean out the White House by all legal and peaceful means - then call a good insect exterminator and complete the job of making our govt one of checks and balances, instead of a bunch of greedy world dominationists, using our Treasury like it's their personal ATM, funneling money through Iraq like the Cayman Islands.