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  Lewis Libby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Libby was a founding member of the Project for the New American Century.
The waiver was offered "voluntarily and personally" by Libby, accompanied by a letter which has raised eyebrows because of his hinting as to what he expects from her testimony, and a poetic and cryptic ending which has been the subject of much speculation.
Libby's former office in the Old Executive Office Building was formerly the office of Theodore Roosevelt when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Philippine-American War.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Libby   (937 words)

  
 Willard Libby - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 - September 8, 1980) was an American chemist, famous for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionised archaeology.
Libby was responsible for the gaseous diffusion separation and enrichment of Uranium-235 which was used in the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
In 1960, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for leading the team (namely, post-doc James Arnold and graduate student Ernie Anderson, with a $5,000 grant) that developed Carbon-14 dating.
open-encyclopedia.com /Willard_Libby   (267 words)

  
 Learn more about Willard Libby in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) was an American chemist, famous for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionised archaeology.
Libby was responsible for the gaseous diffusion separation & enrichmentr of Uranium-235 which was used in the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
In 1960, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for leading the team (namely, Post-Doctorate James Arnold and graduate student Ernie Anderson, with $5,000 grant) that developed Carbon-14 dating.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wi/willard_libby.html   (342 words)

  
 I. Lewis Scooter Libby - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Libby, a neo-conservative, is among those suspected of leaking Valerie Plame's status as a covert CIA operative, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
Libby was able to research 1903 Japan, which was the slice of time between the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War that he had decided should be the backdrop for his novel.
Libby is identified as the protégé of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Dundes Wolfowitz.
www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=I._Lewis_Libby   (633 words)

  
 In the Spotlight And on the Spot
Libby, 55, has displayed this aspect of himself in a series of heady stations throughout his career -- at the State Department, the Pentagon and, for the past five years, in the Bush administration.
Libby, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is taut and compact, with small eyes and a short mop of graying brown hair.
Libby greatly admires the work of Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and military historian who posits that warfare is an inevitable part of civilization, evil is a basic condition of humanity, and tyrants must be confronted by the harshest possible means.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/22/AR2005102201439_pf.html   (2272 words)

  
 The sources of a source 'Scooter' - The Boston Globe
Libby, vice president of the student Democrats, was a supporter of Eugene McCarthy, the antiwar candidate, and, briefly, of Robert Kennedy, according to Hogen, who went to both Andover and Yale with Libby.
Libby and Cheney were skeptics of the CIA, in part because of its failure to detect the extent of Iraqi weapons programs before the 1991 Gulf War.
Libby appeared on CNN's ''Larry King Show" on Feb. 16, 2002, and made a comment about a need for reporters to keep confidential sources: ''Reporters claim a privilege to protect their sources," Libby said, ''not just what they said, but who said it.
www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/23/the_sources_of_a_source_scooter   (1525 words)

  
 Biographies of White House Senior Staff
Libby first entered government service with the United States Department of State in 1981 as a member of the Policy Planning Staff in the Office of the Secretary.
Libby served in the United States Department of Defense as Principal Deputy Under Secretary (Strategy and Resources), and later was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Libby is the author of a novel, The Apprentice, published in 1996.
fpc.state.gov /8488.htm   (464 words)

  
 Libby Roderick
Libby is well-known as an exhilarating and witty artist who offers a remarkable blend of passionate music, wry humor and incisive commentary on social and personal issues.
Libby's recordings have been enormously successful worldwide and her folk classic, "How Could Anyone," has been translated into several languages, recorded by many artists and reprinted in many books (including Hometown by Pulitzer-prize winner Tracy Kidder).
Libby was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska where she still lives part of the time.
www.libbyroderick.com /bio.html   (382 words)

  
 Who is Scooter Libby? - Center for American Progress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Libby was indicted today 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 and his staff reportedly badgered Powell's speechwriters for weeks, culminating in a meeting where Libby presented information in a manner that, according to those who were there, was aggressive and over the top.
Libby's Washington career began when Wolfowitz called his former student and asked him to give up his law practice to go to work in the Reagan administration.
www.americanprogress.org /site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=109719   (708 words)

  
 Salon.com News | Suspicion centers on Lewis Libby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Libby might feel more secure if the White House would issue a blanket denial about his involvement, the way it did for Bush's top political aide, Karl Rove, who was the focus of attention early in the week as the possible source.
By all accounts, Libby was certainly at the heart of the administration's high-level arm-twisting in the intelligence community, trying to massage evidence to make the case that Iraq was an imminent danger to the world.
Libby and Cheney, in highly unusual moves, visited the CIA several times before the war, in what many observers saw as an attempt to pressure analysts to produce more damaging assessments about Saddam Hussein's arsenal or any connection with al-Qaida.
fairuse.1accesshost.com /news1/libby.html   (1603 words)

  
 Willard Frank Libby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Willard Libby was an American Chemist, best known for his development of Carbon 14 (radiocarbon) dating techniques.
Libby was born Dec. 17, 1908 in Grand Valley, Colorado.
Libby was able to determine the age of organic artifacts by measuring the amount of remaining C14.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/libby_willard.html   (314 words)

  
 Life with Libby : Richard Grayson
Libby and Simon fell in love, and John is, in Libby's mother's words to me as we drink eggnog together in the kitchen, "eating his heart out once again." I am crazy about Libby's mother, who is as relaxed as my own mother is hard-edged.
Libby and I and her mother and brother and Avis sit around the table and stuff ourselves, fall asleep for a while, take a walk in the wet snow.
Libby says she is glad to see me, and the four of us toss the frisbee for a while and then Libby and Leonard go out to dinner as they had planned.
www.blithe.com /bhq6.3/6.3.03.html   (4240 words)

  
 Libby, Montana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Libby is a city located in Lincoln County, Montana.
Libby is located at 48°23'17" North, 115°33'13" West (48.388128, -115.553707)
The Libby population has suffered over 200 casualties by asbestos-related disease due to contamination from mining by The W.R. Grace Co. from nearby Zonolite Mountain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libby,_Montana   (415 words)

  
 Bush Critic Became Target of Libby, Former Aides Say - Los Angeles Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Libby pressed the administration to publicly counter Wilson, sparking a debate with other White House officials who thought the tactic would call more attention to the former diplomat and his criticisms.
Libby's actions and those of top White House political advisor Karl Rove are being scrutinized as special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald concludes his 22-month investigation into the exposure of Wilson's wife, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Libby "would see something had appeared in the newspaper or on television and wanted to use the White House operation to counter it," one former official said.
www.latimes.com /news/nationworld/nation/la-na-libby21oct21,0,7741636.story?coll=la-home-headlines   (776 words)

  
 Who Is Scooter Libby? - The secretive Cheney aide at the heart of the CIA leak case. By John Dickerson
Libby's natural urge would have been to push back against the CIA with whom he and his boss had been waging an ongoing war over the intelligence that led to the war itself, a war for which he was a key proponent, and in which he continues to deeply believe.
Libby flies at a higher altitude, talking mostly to marquee columnists and preferring longer and more in-depth conversations to the rat-a-tat-tat required by reporters on deadline.
Libby is fussy and precise with reporters, which is why friends and colleagues find it so hard to believe that he would have been involved in leaking Plame's identity, obstructing justice, or committing perjury.
www.slate.com /id/2128530   (1845 words)

  
 Lincoln County Libby, Montana (Counties)
The county seat of Lincoln County, Montana, is Libby.
Located in Libby in Lincoln County, Montana, Libby 29 SSE is at an elevation of 3600 feet and was...
Located in Libby in Lincoln County, Montana, Libby Dam Base is at an elevation of 2110 feet and...
www.ohwy.com /mt/y/y30053.htm   (409 words)

  
 Willard F. Libby - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This appointment was renewed by the President for a further five-year term on 19th June, 1956, but Libby resigned from it on 30th June, 1959, to become Professor of Chemistry in the University of California at Los Angeles, being appointed Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics on 1st January, 1962.
Libby has performed a wide range of scientific advisory and technical consultant work with industrial firms associated with the Institute for Nuclear Studies, as well as with defence departments, scientific organizations and universities.
Professor Libby holds memberships of numerous learned societies in the United States; he is also Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, of the Bolivian Society of Anthropology, and is Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1960).
nobelprize.org /chemistry/laureates/1960/libby-bio.html   (535 words)

  
 Libby, Willard Frank - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Libby, Willard Frank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
US chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for his development in 1947 of radiocarbon dating as a means of determining the age of organic or fossilized material.
Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Libby,+Willard+Frank   (248 words)

  
 ATSDR - Libby Montana - W.R. GRACE & CO. LIABLE FOR CLEANUP COSTS
Hundreds of people in Libby, including former mine workers, their families, and other residents, have exhibited signs and symptoms of asbestos-related disease.
ATSDR also found in a mortality review in the Libby area (from 1979-1988), 92 percent of those who died from asbestosis and 17 percent of those who died of lung cancer were former employees of the W.R. Grace facility in Libby.
The Libby cleanup also was the subject of an earlier lawsuit between the federal government and W.R. Grace as a result of the company's refusal in July 2000 to provide EPA with access to property that it owned or controlled near Libby, which EPA needed to conduct cleanup activities.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /NEWS/libbymt082703.html   (1084 words)

  
 Libby, Montana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Libby, Montana is a journey into the world of a hard-working, blue-collar community that exemplifies the American Dream gone horribly wrong.
Libby residents find themselves beleaguered by medical and economic questions in the wake of the mine shutdown and the bankruptcy proceedings of the former owners (as they try to dodge legal liability and the massive cleanup costs).
The discovery that the Libby vermiculite was contaminated with asbestos rocked this picturesque small town to its foundations.
www.highplainsfilms.org /fp_libby.html   (1281 words)

  
 W. R. Grace & Co. - Libby, Montana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Grace has reopened an office in Libby to assist the state and the EPA in their ongoing investigation.
Grace operated a vermiculite mine and processing mill in Libby from 1963 until 1990, when the mine was closed.
In connection with the development of the National Emission Standard for Asbestos, issued in 1973, the association of fibrous tremolite asbestos with vermiculite in the Libby ore was extensively discussed with the EPA staff.
www.grace.com /html/libby/libby.html   (1114 words)

  
 Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia
Captain Luther Libby leased the west building on 3 year terms from the Enders family and erected the now renowned sign, L. Libby was a native of Maine and with the outbreak of war, since most of his business was with Northern ships, he closed down the operation.
The removal of Libby from Richmond to Chicago was a project never before equaled in the history of building moving and one that was not to be surpassed for many years later.
The enterprise was incorporated as the Libby Prison Museum Association, T/A GREAT LIBBY PRISON WAR MUSEUM, on 4 February 1888, with a capitalization of $400, 000, to which was added the extensive Civil War collection of Charles F. Gunther, a wealthy candy manufacturer.
members.aol.com /jweaver300/grayson/libby.htm   (1780 words)

  
 TalkLeft: Murray Waas: It's Libby vs. Miller Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Potentially misleading and incomplete answers by Libby to federal investigators are less likely to be explained away as the result of his faulty memory or inadvertent mistakes, the sources said.
The allegation that Libby tried to discourage Miller from testifying or influence her testimony arose after Fitzgerald learned from news accounts in August that Miller believed Libby's general waiver did not include her.
But more important were concerns that a leak of an account of Libby's grand jury testimony, on the eve of Miller's own testimony, might be an effort -- using the media -- to let Miller know what Libby had said, if she wanted to give testimony beneficial to him, or similar to his.
talkleft.com /new_archives/012788.html   (1879 words)

  
 ATSDR - Asbestos - Asbestos Exposure in Libby, Montana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vermiculite mining in and near the city of Libby, Montana began in the 1920s and was continued by the W.R. Grace Company from 1963 until 1990.
This project, a part of the Libby Community Environmental Health Project was undertaken by ATSDR with cooperation of the DHHS Region VII Office, EPA, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, and the Lincoln County Environmental Health Department.
A mortality review, which compared death rates for residents of the Libby area with those in Montana and the United States for selected diseases associated with exposure to asbestos (1979–1998).
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /asbestos/asbestos_study.html   (655 words)

  
 Flower and McLaren - California Celtic Americana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Most of the tunes are written by Robin and Libby except 'Over the hills to Maggie', 'Pipers Despair', 'Bank of Ireland' and 'Morning Dew' and they all gel together extremely well.
"Libby is one of the most accomplished pianists in folk music today, while Robin plays anything with strings with punch and panache.
CAMOGIE is Robin Flower and Libby McLaren, multi-instrumental trailblazers of Celtic Americana, Danny Carnahan, veteran balladeer and lead singer with the adventurous band Wake the Dead, and Mary McLaughlin, internationally-acclaimed Irish chanteuse.
www.flowerandmclaren.com   (520 words)

  
 Libby, Montana
Libby’s population of 2600 has suffered the deaths of 200 miners, family members, and residents.
The film begins its incisive investigation with a brief history of Libby, the introduction and development of the vermiculite mine, and the plight of the sickly and mournful townsfolk against the two faces and forked tongues of bureaucracy.
Alternating between old home movies and newsreels, to television reports and recent interviews, Libby, Montana is expertly compiled and genuinely compassionate when addressing the people involved.
home.comcast.net /~flickhead/libby-montana.html   (530 words)

  
 Welcome to the Libby Area Chamber of Commerce in Libby, Montana
Welcome to the Libby Area Chamber of Commerce in Libby, Montana
Libby Downtown Revitalization and Streetscape Master Plan Project
The Libby Area Chamber of Commerce is an organization of businesses and individuals whose mission is to enthusiastically promote economic and community development through a positive attitude which fosters health, growth, and an improved business climate for the greater Libby Area.
www.libbychamber.org   (60 words)

  
 Welcome to Libby Builders -- Custom Home Builders
Guy Libby, founder of Libby Builders, Inc., is hands on in the building of each new home.
Libby’s approach to building each home remains constant; to deliver a consistent product, whatever the size, elevation, or finish.
Libby’s design/build team is available for property acquisition, conceptual plans, architectural plans, and permit acquisition.
www.libbybuilders.com   (139 words)

  
 libby - libbymain
Our goal is to operate Libby Dam to minimize negative impacts on the environment through pollution prevention and mitigation, and we are committed to continual improvement.
Libby Dam will establish and maintain an environmental management system that develops, monitors, and measures environmental objectives and targets to strive for optimum environmental performance.
Libby Dam Visitor Center is a great place to visit with family and friends during the summer recreation season.
www.nws.usace.army.mil /PublicMenu/Menu.cfm?sitename=libby&pagename=libbymain   (301 words)

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