Valerie Plame’s Opportunistic Lawsuit Against The Administration Tossed Out
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in the CIA leak scandal.
Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in Plame said that violated her privacy rights and was illegal retribution for her husband’s criticism of the administration.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and said he would not express an opinion on the constitutional arguments. Bates dismissed the case against all defendants: Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
Plame’s attorneys had said the lawsuit would be an uphill battle. Public officials are normally immune from such lawsuits filed in connection with their jobs.
Plame’s identity was revealed in a syndicated newspaper column in shortly after Wilson began criticizing the administration’s march to war in Iraq. Plame believes the leak was retribution and that it violated their constitutional rights.
Armitage and Rove were the sources for that article, which touched off a lengthy leak investigation. Nobody was charged with leaking but Libby was convicted of lying and obstruction the investigation. Bush commuted Libby’s 2 1/2-year prison term before the former aide served any time.
A message seeking comment was left with Plame’s attorney, Erwin Chemerinsky.
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Ha ha ha. Wonder if the MSM will report this? It should be lead story–since if she had some victory you know they would blare it all over the place…
July 19th, 2007 at 11:43 amWhat I love is that the article lists VP Cheney first (and “others”), then it repeats the names later, leaving Armitage until very last.
Armitage was the first official to use Valerie Wilson/Plame’s name in the White House and should always be listed first, no matter what the *selling point* of the article would be.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:13 pmLOL. Get off the stage ya big dope.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:25 pmLets all hope she was a better CIA Agent than she is as political hit lady.
At least someone could’ve clued her in that she needed to appear concerned about her anonimity for any of this to have a chance.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:09 pmDoes this mean hubby Joe is now off the hook for outing Val too? Oh, that’s right, the two individuals most responsible for Val’s identity crisis, Joe and Armitage, got a free pass from the demedia. Never mind….
July 19th, 2007 at 2:30 pmThe bitch outed herself when she listed her and her hubby in Who’s Who America. She also bragged to her neighbors about her job. She outed herself long ago. From what I’m told she was a “nobody” at the CIA anyways.
The law says that you have to be in the field to be listed as a covert agent. She was never that. Another big ego in a tiny job.
I wonder if her house husband ever got a real job? Or is he still mooching off of her? Yeah he’s a real man all right(cough).
July 19th, 2007 at 3:34 pmMorons moved to Santa FE.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:53 pmI’d like to bitch slap him!
July 20th, 2007 at 4:28 amCovert agents don’t drive into the parking lot at Quantico every day. She testified that “we are trained to drop tails” Heck, no one needed to tail her- they could just park outside the building and wait for her. When she showed up, they could say “Gee, we were right”
July 20th, 2007 at 6:52 amI understand that the Russians knew about her back in the 90’s. So if the CIA had any notion of putting her back in the field in a covert role (which I doubt), whoever outed her may have saved her life!