CNN.com: Could Plame sue Rove?

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Could Plame sue Rove?
By Anthony J. Sebok
FindLaw columnist
Special to CNN.com

(FindLaw) -- In 1998, President Bill Clinton was almost forced from office because he lied about whether he had "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky in a deposition. The deposition was conducted by lawyers for Paula Jones -- who had sued the president under federal civil rights law and Arkansas tort law.

One of the greatest features of the American civil justice system -- especially its tort law -- is that it gives average citizens the power to force anyone to answer them in court. Could Valerie Plame, the CIA agent whose identity was leaked to the press, take matters into her own hands and use the civil justice system to get Karl Rove -- who may, it seems, have been the leaker -- to answer her in court?

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A hypothetical case by Plame against Rove would have a number of difficulties, some of which may be fatal to her claim.

The first and most important problem that Plame would have, is that Rove could claim that he is immune from suit because he was a federal employee working for the president when he allegedly injured Plame.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I have wondered about that.

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2. k

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3. I would think so, but not as long as he is in government

[Patty Diana]

4. John Dean at Findlaw wrote about that very thing and said YES

now he's a lawyer who knows his shit___if he says so I'm inclined to believe him. I'm going to look it up now

[jsamuel]

5. Who cares... Don't let them make this into a sewing matter.

we definitely don't need that...

[Patty Diana]

6. More vicious than Tricky Dick

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/10/03/dean/print.html John Dean says the Bush team's leaks are even viler than his former boss's -- and that Plame and Wilson should file a civil suit.

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By John W. Dean



Oct. 3, 2003 | I thought I had seen political dirty tricks as foul as they could get, but I was wrong. In blowing the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame to take political revenge on her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for telling the truth, Bush's people have out-Nixoned Nixon's people. And my former colleagues were not amateurs by any means.