Armitage to be Added to Plame Civil Suit

[AtomicKitten]

Wait. Isn't he like really, really sorry and feels just awful and all that?

Armitage to be added to CIA leak civil suit
Claim former deputy secretary of State comments damaged covert career

Updated: 3:18 p.m. MT Sept 12, 2006

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, tell NBC they plan to file court papers Wednesday in their civil suit to include former State Department top official Richard Armitage as an additional defendant.

It took three years for Armitage to publicly admit, last week, that he was the first to leak the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson to reporters.

Melanie Sloan, an attorney for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, who are representing the Wilson's, tells NBC that is was not okay for Armitage to leak Plame's name to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and columnist Bob Novak.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. I only hope the Wilsons get every one who was involved in it, all of them

should be taken away in the paddy wagon.

:kick:

[Igel]

2. I thought they issued a statement that

Armitage wouldn't be included because he didn't act with sufficient malice.

I assume the lawyers decided including Armitage would increase the chances of winning.