Libyan Warlord Hires Ex-Clinton Aide Lanny Davis, Ex-GOP House Leader Livingston, to Lobby D.C.

A Russian-backed warlord vying for power in Libya has hired a one-time senior aide to President Bill Clinton and a former Republican lawmaker to lead a nearly $1 million effort to lobby the Biden administration for political support, documents show.

Lanny Davis and former Rep. Robert Livingston (R., La.) have signed with militia leader Khalifa Haftar to try to arrange meetings with officials at the White House, State Department and Congress before Libya’s national election scheduled for December, documents filed with the Justice Department show. Human-rights organizations and international prosecutors have accused Mr. Haftar’s forces of war crimes.