CIA leak case has not ended - Bush Administration faces a lawsuit from Valerie Plame

[ck4829]

The CIA leak saga did not end with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's conviction this week. On top of his lengthy appeals, he and senior Bush administration officials face a lawsuit for their role in the exposure of a former CIA operative.

Valerie Plame believes the administration violated her constitutional rights by leaking her identity to reporters in 2003, and she is demanding compensation. Her attorneys believe the case could reveal more about the inner workings of the Bush White House than surfaced during Libby's monthlong trial.

Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove and former State Department Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage are named in the case. So far, it has been a matter of dueling legal briefs. Lawyers are due in court this May for a hearing on whether it should be thrown out.

Plame's attorney acknowledges he has to clear some tall hurdles to persuade a judge that she and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had their free speech, due process and privacy rights violated.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_wilson_lawsuit

[Bitwit1234]

1. Golly it didn't take much to convince a judge Paula Jones

had a lawsuit. Wonder why a republican can't be sued and a democrat can. Hows that for bi-partisanship.

[Old and In the Way]

3. If Bush was 1/2 the man Clinton was, he'd appoint a special prosecutor to handle this.

But, we already know that Bush isn't close to being 1/2 the man Clinton is and the "Rule of Law" Party has no interest in pursuing the truth when it involves real national security issues. It's only important when it is a Democratic President having consensual sex.

[ajeffersonian]

2. Look out - here comes "state secrets privilege"

The gov't will just use their favorite weapon, the "State Secrets Privilege" to block the case, just as they have done in others, such as Sibel Edmonds' case against the FBI.