Ms. Plame and her husband have hinted they were preparing such a lawsuit for a while, I guess Novakula's recent nose-thumb was the trigger. Good luck to them: I'm sure the White House will attempt to quash this sooner than later. Of course, there is the little example of the Paula Jones Bill Clinton matter, but that was before the bloodless coup.
WSJ.com - Valerie Plame Sues Cheney, Libby, Rove Over Name Leak The Central Intelligence Agency 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 Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of revealing Ms. Plame's CIA identity in seeking revenge against Mr. Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration's motives in Iraq.
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The lawsuit accuses Messrs. Cheney, Libby, Rove and 10 unnamed administration officials or political operatives of putting the Wilsons and their children's lives at risk by exposing Ms. 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.
Joe Wilson's home page
and
Legal Defense Fund
update:
the actual complaint is here
Tags: Cheney, /Frog March, /Karl_Rove, /litigation, /Plame
