Plame Sues Armitage Over CIA Leak

[RoveRage]

One-time covert CIA officer Valerie Plame on Wednesday sued the former No. 2 official at the State Department for violating her privacy rights.
The suit does not accuse Richard Armitage, who was deputy secretary of state in the Bush administration, of participating in an administration conspiracy to blow her cover.

Plame added Armitage's name to a civil suit in U.S. District Court against Vice President Dick Cheney, his former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and White House adviser Karl Rove.

Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, say the White House leaked Plame's identity as retribution for Wilson's criticisms of prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Armitage admitted last week that he told two reporters in 2003 that Plame worked for the CIA, but he said the disclosure was inadvertent. Armitage said he knew of no plan to leak Plame's identity; some people said that admission disproved the conspiracy theory.

By adding Armitage's name to the suit, Plame's lawyers set up a different scenario. They contend a White House conspiracy existed, but that Armitage's leak was independent of it.

Armitage is accused of violating Plame's privacy rights. He is not accused of violating the Wilsons' constitutional rights to equal protection and freedom of speech _ allegations that remain against the White House officials.

Wilson discounted reports that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. Such a claim wound up in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has investigated the leak for years and has not charged anyone with intentionally leaking Plame's identity. Libby is under indictment for lying to authorities about his conversations with reporters.

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The Wilson's need to sue the whole damned bunch of those criminals.

Edited to add link:
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/15510402.htm

[9119495]

1. Cue right-wing Armitage Legal Defense Fund. (n/t)

[Radio_Lady]

2. RoveRage, I'm not disputing this, but we need to have a link to this

story.

Thanks a bunch ...

[itsrobert]

5. link

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/15510402.htm

[AlCzervik]

3. can we get a link please?

[itsrobert]

4. link

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/15510402.htm

[RoveRage]

6. Sorry, I'm new at this and forgot to link the story.

Please forgive me.

[immoderate]

7. Gadzooks! -- And welcome to DU!

You did good, RoveRage, zoomed right to the Greatest Page. And so now you know, DUers want their links, and they are a forgiving bunch. :hi:

I am wondering if they should name the idiot child in their suit. Then he would have to be deposed. Maybe he doesn't know anything, but fuck'm.

Edit to add that FYI posts in LBN forum must have a link.

--IMM

[jazzjunkysue]

8. Don't worry: Someone will always remind you on DU of all your faults.

That, I can personally guarantee.

Thanks for the great news. Need some these days. It's nice to know there are new people joining and adding to the conversation.

Welcome!

[okieinpain]

17. hahahahahahahaha..

[Radio_Lady]

20. No problem -- welcome to the DU!

[lovuian]

9. Go Plame Go

:woohoo:

[RoveRage]

10. I can't recall now, did she include "Dead-Eye" Cheney in her......

.....original lawsuit? Like IMM said, don't know why she didn't include the Chimp-in Chief in the original suit....gotta believe he was aware of the conspiracy as well.

Thanks all for the welcome. I love late-breaking news so I'll be here often.

I'll also try to remember to post those pesky links.

[Peace Patriot]

11. This Armitage "disclosure" is definitely an odd bit. Wonder what slimey

thing lurks behind it, in the dark, dank caves of Washington DC.

[Triana]

12. They RUINED her career! Could have cost her LIFE!

AND she was working on friggin WMD!!!

WHY oh WHY aren't every one of these SOBs IN PRISON!?

[Psephos]

14. Frankly, she seems to be doing just fine

One might even say, never better. I think Armitage did her an unintended favor.

More power to her.

Peace

[leesa]

15. Really. Does she have a job?

[Triana]

16. She had a career for 20+ years. It was ruined by a vengeant bigmouth.

Does she have a job now? What happens with her career now? Is she OK because her hubby is 'keeping' her? I just can't see how this is 'OK' for her. I have to disagree, respectfully. Just can't get my head around how 'she's OK' after what they did to her and her life's work.

[Psephos]

19. She now has celebrity and political cachet. I'd take that trade any day.

She has cover stories and glamour photo spreads in top magazines. Paid speaking engagements. Consultancies. She may run for political office. If she wants, she can land a professorship. Book contracts worth millions. She has a high-powered agent - that says a lot.

Fame brings a lot of offers. Look how well Big Dog is doing these days.

I stand by my original point.

Peace.

[AtomicKitten]

13. wow - an audience for this story

that I posted yesterday ... guess it had to marinate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2825438

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. Marinate. Nicely put.

DUers are such a clever bunch...makes me smile to be associated with you'uns. :)