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| Plame Sues Cheney, Rove Over CIA Leak |
| 2006-07-13 |
| You knew this was going to happen x-CIA agent claims VP, Bush officials plotted to ruin her career JULY 13--Claiming that Vice President Dick Cheney conspired with presidential adviser Karl Rove and other Bush administration officials to destroy her CIA career, Valerie Plame today filed a federal lawsuit over the leaking of her identity to reporters. Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson allege that Cheney & Co. outed here as a CIA agent in retaliation for Wilson's criticism of the White House's rationale for invading Iraq, according to a U.S. District Court complaint (a copy of which you can find below). In addition to Cheney and Rove, the lawsuit names Cheney's former top aide, I Lewis "Scooter" Libby as a defendant. Libby is currently under indictment for lying to a federal grand jury examining the circumstances of the Plame leak. In the federal complaint, which does not specify monetary damages, but seeks compensatory, exemplary, and punitive awards, Plame and Wilson charge that the defendants's actions have led them to "fear for their safety and for the safety of their children." (23 pages) |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #9 Assuming the judge isn't a Clintonian asshole... |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-07-13 21:29 |
| #8 OP - nice subtlety :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-13 21:28 |
| #7 Oohhhh, discovery!!! They can ask Plame on the stand about who sent her hubby and when she lies, sock her a felony perjury conviction. Never mind what happens on the stand. The document demands that will come LONG before the trial are gonna be amazing. Funding, communications -- it'll either all come out, or the Wilson team's going to be facing a pissed-off judge. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-07-13 21:23 |
| #6 Both plame and Wilson (stupid wife and idiot husband)need to be hanged from the gates of the Washington Naval Yard, and left there. What a pair of under-the-covers trotskyites and worthless shills. They deserve no sympathy and no "relief". Perhaps we need to reactivate both of them and make them the Ambassador and Second Secretary to Somalia. That might be fitting. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-07-13 21:06 |
| #5 Soros & Friends do, and you can bet they're funding this BS. Personally, I love to watch them waste their money on lost causes. :) |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-07-13 20:01 |
| #4 hope Joe and Val have enough money to pay Cheney and Rove's atty fees :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-13 19:55 |
| #3 Oohhhh, discovery!!! They can ask Plame on the stand about who sent her hubby and when she lies, sock her a felony perjury conviction. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2006-07-13 18:43 |
| #2 I thought Novac already said he read that Wilsons wife was a CIA agent in Who's Who in America. Written by Wilson himself?! Wouldn't that kind of let the cat out of the bag? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-07-13 18:21 |
| #1 Those guys just can't stand being bumped off the front page, can they. Asshats. |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-07-13 16:55 |