Valerie Plame Sues Cheney, Rove, Libby
Posted on July 13, 2006
The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, accused Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of revealing Plame’s CIA identity in seeking revenge against Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration’s motives in Iraq.Several news organizations wrote about Plame after syndicated columnist Robert Novak named her in a column on July 14, 2003. Novak’s column appeared eight days after Wilson alleged in an opinion piece in The New York Times that the administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war.
The CIA had sent Wilson to Niger in early 2002 to determine whether there was any truth to reports that Saddam Hussein’s government had tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. Wilson discounted the reports, but the allegation nevertheless wound up in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address.
The lawsuit accuses Cheney, Libby, Rove and 10 unnamed administration officials or political operatives of putting the Wilsons and their children’s lives at risk by exposing Plame.
“This lawsuit concerns the intentional and malicious exposure by senior officials of the federal government of … (Plame), whose job it was to gather intelligence to make the nation safer and who risked her life for her country,” the Wilsons’ lawyers said in the lawsuit.
The Democratic Underground are ecstatic as the celebrate! No political agenda at all, move along.
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I have goosebumps. I am SO happy that they are pursuing this civil suit. Even if they don’t win, they will bring out the details for the public to see first hand.
When you go over to FReeptard land,you run into all the loonies Raygun set free when he had all the mental institutions closed. You couldn’t put all those ignorant mofos together and come out with ONE GOOD PERSON with a WORKING BRAIN. It’s pathetic.I wish they would all go sign up and go to Iraq. That could eliminate part of the “patriotic” trash residing in this country.People like that should be put out of their misery.I know this would be a better place to live without those insane terrorists.
It will be a cleansing of some of the slime, if nothing else.
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Valerie. Because, you see, if the suit is summarily dismissed, she and Joe will be laughingstocks. And if it goes any further, Dick and Karl and Scooter will have the right to do discovery — and then, I believe, Val ‘n’ Joe will reap the whirlwind.
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The Vampire Strikes Back
Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson have filed a lawsuit accusing Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Presidential advisor Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and 10 “John Doe”s of “putting the Wilsons and their children’s lives at risk by exposing Plame” and trying…
[Bush]Valerie, you’re fired.[/Bush]
Plame, Wilson and the Left should celebrate in this brief moment of jubilation. For when the Conservative attorneys finish exposing the duplicity and lies, the lawyers for the plaintiffs and defense will get a bunch of money and the plaintiffs will get ZERO and humiliation.
Somebody Tell Valerie She Was Not Covert
One would think that after the special prosecutor found no evidence of a crime and after Robert Novak told the world how he obtained Valerie Plame’s name that the issue would be settled. One would also think that no indictments indicates she was…
Plame out
Maybe some lawyer can explain to me how this is good for the plaintiffs, but Valerie Plame suing the veep, etc. means her pathological liar husband, Joe Wilson, has to give a deposition under oath.
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The only problem is that a crime had to be committed for her to have standing.
Liberals are sure a fun breed to watch. Not only was a federal prosecutor unable to find ANY crime related to the outing of a non-convert CIA agent and Democratic Party hac
I hope to god this gets thrown out of court and they become the laughingstock of the US of A.
Wilson, Plame Sue Rove, Cheney, And Libby
I think they’re grasping here, trying to keep this story in the public eye:
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, filed a lawsuit yesterday against Vice President Cheney, presidential adviser Karl …
Out Of Order
Question: we have "contempt of court" to charge people with when they act badly in court and we have "contempt of Congress" when people behave badly toward Congress - so why don't we have "contempt of the President&quo…
If she gets 10 or more liberals on the jury she will win.
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