Plame sues Armitage over CIA leak

[Kadie]

Plame sues Armitage over CIA leak
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago


WASHINGTON - One-time covert CIA officer Valerie Plame sued the former No. 2 official at the State Department on Wednesday, accusing him of violating her privacy rights

However, the lawsuit did 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 said last week that he told columnist Robert Novak and Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in 2003 that Plame worked for the CIA, but he said the disclosure was inadvertent.

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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.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060913/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_lawsuit_3

[helderheid]

1. recommended! Now go rate that yahoo story UP!!

[Disturbed]

2. "disclosure was inadvertent"

I suspect that it was not inadvertent. Maybe this will be apparent when Armitage is under oath on the stand.

[Truthiness Inspector]

3. So with this new scenario

is Valerie Plame saying that her name was leaked twice (once by Armitage by accident and also by the WH on purpose)?

[Kadie]

5. Not sure.

So, I will kick this thread and maybe someone else will be able to answer.

:D

[wicket]

4. K & R

:kick: