Valerie Plame Is Suing Bush, Cheney and Rove!

[sinewave]

This will probably amount to nothing, but she might have a decent case against those swine.

Former CIA officer sues Cheney, Libby, Rove over leak
Plame alleges Bush administration officials ruined her career

WASHINGTON (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.

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. (Novak: Rove confirmed Plame's identity)

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. (Read the lawsuitexternal link)

"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.

Libby is the only administration official charged in connection with the leak investigation. He faces trial in January on perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges, accused of lying to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about when he learned Plame's identity and what he subsequently told reporters.

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald told Rove's lawyer last month that he had decided not to seek criminal charges against Rove.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/13/cialeak.lawsuit.ap/index.html

 

[bored]

*awaits the Bush-Administration-apologists to arrive and criticize Plame*

 

[sinewave]

*awaits the Bush-Administration-apologists to arrive and criticize Plame*

"She wasn't a real CIA agent."

 

[JLBats]

*awaits the Bush-Administration-apologists to arrive and criticize Plame*

I hate when people do this in threads

 

[bored]

I hate when people do this in threads

What I did, or what I predicted?

 

[Strange]

I say we all start a class action law suit against the Bush administration for the high price of gas.

 

[JLBats]

What I did, or what I predicted?

What you did.

 

[Abaddon]

You go girl.

 

[jaguarr]

Good for her.

jag

 

[bored]

What you did.

Ah. Yeah, well, it's easy to be cynical sometimes.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

I hate when people do this in threads

I hate when people do this in threads

 

[JLBats]

I hate when people do this in threads

Dude, **** off, I'm trying to coat myself in a thin layer of airplane parts and your constant tweening is causing me to lose my French Poetic realism.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Dude, **** off, I'm trying to coat myself in a thin layer of airplane parts and your constant tweening is causing me to lose my French Poetic realism.

I also hate it when people use french poetic realism in threads

 

[kane9321]

go get'em valerie

 

[jaguarr]

People who cover themselves in a thin layer of airplane parts lack credibility.

jag

 

[JLBats]

I also hate it when people use french poetic realism in threads

Anyway, the reason I hate when people make that sort of comment in a thread is that it makes them more open to Conservative attacks. It's also just kind of annoying, and I feel it leads to massively stupid flame wars that don't even deal with the topic.

*shrug*

 

[Kable24]

I am a Republican and I say go for it. I hope she wins a butt load of money from them. I am wondering when relatives of soldiers who died in Iraq are going to sue the Admin for wrongful death. I'm hating the Bush Admin and these right wing die-hard republicans more and more everyday.

 

[Abaddon]

I am a Republican and I say go for it. I hope she wins a butt load of money from them. I am wondering when relatives of soldiers who died in Iraq are going to sue the Admin for wrongful death. I'm hating the Bush Admin and these right wing die-hard republicans more and more everyday.

The Force is strong in this one.

 

[sinewave]

I am a Republican and I say go for it. I hope she wins a butt load of money from them. I am wondering when relatives of soldiers who died in Iraq are going to sue the Admin for wrongful death. I'm hating the Bush Admin and these right wing die-hard republicans more and more everyday.

That's refreshing to hear coming from a Republican.

 

[Kable24]

Not all Republicans are as bad as they are made out to be. It's the few bad ones that ruin everything about the party. No different than bible thumpers ruining Christianity.