Lewis Libby
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Sep 20, 2026
Scott HortonGUEST
Yeah.
Scott HortonGUEST
And Scooter Libby as special assistant to the president as liaison running back and forth down the hall and everything.
Scott HortonGUEST
With Trump here, I mean, the best I can tell, literally the war party is Trump and Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham and Mark Levin.
Scott HortonGUEST
And then, well, I mean, I don't even think Ben Shapiro counts because Trump doesn't watch that or know about that probably.
Victor Davis HansonHOST
So when the media people got, the person who really was a master of that was Dick Cheney.
Victor Davis HansonHOST
So when Dick Cheney was vice president and they started calling before he got ill, when they would call Bush Hitler, he'd get on the phone or one of his aides like Scooter Libby or somebody.
Victor Davis HansonHOST
And they'd say, what did you write? Now you, you know what I mean? Or they'd go out and they attack them.
Victor Davis HansonHOST
And the left did that very well.
Josh ReidHOST
There is a precedent for that process.
Josh ReidHOST
In the Scooter Libby investigation, contradictions between his account and other evidence led to perjudy- perjury, false statements, and obstruction charges.
Josh ReidHOST
Or maybe there is something else that the investigation team found, something that hinges on national security.
Josh ReidHOST
What's interesting is all of this came out, right, started coming out on September 10th, September 14th.
Richard H. EbrightGUEST
He received a letter from Kingston, who at that time was the deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, that states, in return for accepting this new responsibility as director not only of NIAID, and not only of the new biodefense appropriation that would be provided to Nye, but of all U.S. biodefense research, civilian and military, his salary was effectively doubled to a salary that was substantially higher than that of the U.S. president, substantially higher than that of a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Richard H. EbrightGUEST
And he accepted that and Scooter Libby, who was in the office of vice president under Dick Cheney, was asked to coordinate and staff from Scooter Libby's office were placed in the NIAID office of director as permanent resident members to ensure that the funds would be used the way that Dick Cheney chose.
Richard H. EbrightGUEST
And the approach that was used to operationalize that was that starting, and we're already in 2002, starting in 2002 and 2003, NIAID assigned a new set of priority categorizations.
Richard H. EbrightGUEST
And it created category A NIAID priority pathogens category B, NIAID priority pathogens, and category C, NIAID priority pathogens.
Reggie WaltonGUEST
Good afternoon, and thank you for being here.
Reggie WaltonGUEST
Um, when I was assigned this case, that old saying, "When it rains, it pours," I thought about that because I had just finished, uh, presiding over the Scooter Libby trial, which I wrote about in the first book.
Reggie WaltonGUEST
And then all of a sudden, I was assigned this case, and I knew, uh, because of the notoriety of Roger Clemens, uh, that it was gonna be a real challenge not only picking a jury, but also presiding over the trial and making sure that the jury would not be in some way tainted by the media, because I knew there would be a lot of media coverage, uh, regarding the case.
Reggie WaltonGUEST
Um, there were actually two trials.
Bruce CarlsonHOST
After former Ambassador Joseph Wilson criticized the administration's claims about Iraq seeking uranium in Africa, officials leaked to reporters that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a covert CIA operative.
Bruce CarlsonHOST
Miller never published a story, but she had spoken with Cheney as chief of staff Scooter Libby.
Bruce CarlsonHOST
When a federal prosecutor sought her testimony, Miller refused, citing journalistic privilege.
Bruce CarlsonHOST
She spent 85 days in jail for contempt.
Jim LobeGUEST
ironically, during Carter's administration, given Carter's own religiosity, that added the third component of the coalition that after 9-11 really gathered tremendous force and essentially drove the global war on terror for subsequent years.
Jim LobeGUEST
Now, After the US defeat of Iraq in the first Gulf War in 1991, you have Cheney, a nationalist, charging Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby and a few other neoconservative luminaries in the Pentagon.
Jim LobeGUEST
Wolfowitz at that time was Undersecretary for Policy, which is the number three position Cheney charges them with creating a new defense policy guidance, which would be a precursor to the national security strategy.
Jim LobeGUEST
And this team, which also included Khalil Khalilzad, the guy who just negotiated with the Taliban.
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Jim LobeGUEST
And the result is that the Bush administration in its second term becomes, I wouldn't say necessarily less aggressive, but it modifies its policy.
Jim LobeGUEST
And Cheney is more or less out.
Jim LobeGUEST
Part of Cheney's departure also has to, or not departure, loss of influence has to do with the loss of Scooter Libby as his national security advisor, because Scooter Libby is a dyed-in-the-wool neoconservative, totally with Richard Perle and so on.
Jim LobeGUEST
And Scooter Libby is undeniably very, very effective as a bureaucratic operator.
Cliff MayHOST
I remember that day.
Cliff MayHOST
So does Lewis Scooter Libby, who served in the George W. Bush administration as chief of staff to Vice President Richard B. Cheney, assistant to the vice president for national security affairs and assistant to the president.
Cliff MayHOST
He's currently a distinguished fellow here at FTD.
Cliff MayHOST
I've been wanting to talk to him about what he recalls and about what we've learned and maybe what we failed to learn over the quarter century since that terrible day.
Richard DearloveHOST
I think that was probably the words I would have used.
Richard DearloveHOST
But I'd be very interested, John, in your observations as how CIA reacted to the Iraq element as that grew in the minds of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Scooter Libby, and others, who seemed to be looking very strongly in that direction at a pretty early stage
John McLaughlinGUEST
stageYes.
John McLaughlinGUEST
Uh, at the meeting at Camp David on September 15, that's the weekend after 9/11, when the president went around the table and asked everyone to, you know, give their sense of what had happened and how it had happened and such, uh, th- there were people in the room, principally from th- those you mentioned, who at least posed the question of c- could this have been, uh, sponsored by Iraq? And, uh, I, I recall our, our reaction was w- we have no reason to believe that that is the case.
John McConnellGUEST
Then he got out of his chair and went out to see Andy Card's assistant, the chief of staff, uh, the chief of staff's assistant, uh, uh, to tell him, uh, to, to, to get in touch when he could.
John McConnellGUEST
And then he came back in the office, and then, uh, I remember Mary Matalin came in, Scooter Libby came in, Josh Bolten, Condi Rice.
John McConnellGUEST
And at a certain point, I realized there were gonna be some big, big discussions.
John McConnellGUEST
At one, I remember also the president being on the phone with the vice president, and I had my hands on Cheney's desk, and he was on the phone with the president, and I couldn't make out was, what was being said, even though I was right there.
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