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Plame Sues Cheney, Rove & Libby
Ex-CIA Officer Accuses Officials Of Seeking Revenge Against Husband

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2006

"As their chief method of punishment, the White House officials destroyed (Plame's) cover by revealing her classified employment with the CIA to reporters."
from complaint filed by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson

(CBS/AP) 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.

Read the rest here.

DOUG
Even if she doesn't win, this will get the incident back in the news again.

Having to use the civil courts to deal with what should be a criminal case is bad, but at least we have civil courts. These guys have blood on their hands from outing Plame, as things being the way they are, you know a number of her contacts no longer walk the planet. Compared to the blood on their hands from the war they instigated, that the outing was just a small part of, I guess that particular piece of treason is negligible.

This is one of those irrelevant petty partisan bickering issues. Personally, I have no problem with someone outing a CIA agent (or narc, or any other govt goon.)

my first thought was that she's suing for "conspiring" to ruin her career - but did they actually ruin her career? You have to claim actual damages to sue someone. If they only "conspired" to ruin her career then there wouldn't have been actual damages.... right?

Betsy wrote:my first thought was that she's suing for "conspiring" to ruin her career - but did they actually ruin her career? You have to claim actual damages to sue someone. If they only "conspired" to ruin her career then there wouldn't have been actual damages.... right?

DOUG
They did ruin her career. When you blow a spy's cover, it's over. AND, it's over for those who were working with her and providing her with information.

Did you know that she was working on the Iran WMD issue when they blew her cover?

DAR
Plame in a press conference today:




Valerie: "I am proud to have served my country by working at the Central Intelligence Agency. I and my former CIA colleagues trusted our government to protect us as we did our jobs. That a few reckless individuals within the current administration betrayed that trust has been a grave disappointment to every patriotic American. Joe and I have filed this action with heavy hearts but with a renewed sense of purpose. I would much rather be continuing my career as a public servant than be a plaintiff in a lawsuit, but I feel strongly and justice demands that those who acted so harmfully against our national security must answer for their shameful conduct in a court of law."

Bush can and probably will pardon Libby on the way out, but he can't pardon this bastard:



from this civil suit (can he?).

Plames a hottie. She'll be smiling when she wins millions from these dirtbags:



D.

okay, I just wasn't sure since she was suing for "conspiring to" so the wording wasn't clear - thanks

Yeah, she's sweet. But that Cheney guy, there's a real hottie. Just look at that puss!

BTW,
That was ME above. This damn thing still won't let me sign in with my name.....keeps telling me my username is already taken. I know. I took it.

OK. OK. I think I've got it figured out now.
You just have to be smarter than the keyboard, I guess.

There you go Rick!

Bush can pardon anybody he wants to (except himself) for criminal actions. I don't know if the presidential pardon works in civil suits (most of our constitutional protections don't - how they kept going after Clinton - he wasn't protected from self-incrimination, double jeapardy, etc, because they were civil and not criminal suits).