I. Lewis Libby

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr. (born August 22, 1950) is a lawyer and United States Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.

Libby started his government career in the the State Department in 1981 under President Reagan. He has also, at various times in his long career, held positions with the American Bar Association, the Rand Corporation, the Department of Defense, the U.S. House of Representatives (as a Legal Advisor).

Libby graduated from Yale University in 1972, and from Columbia University's law school in 1975. He also wrote The Apprentice, a novel published in 1996.

In 2003 and 2004, intense speculation about Libby centered around the notion that he may have intentionally "outed" an undercover CIA agent for political gain. Subsequent investigations in late 2004 found that he was almost certainly innocent of these charges.

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