CIA Leak Case

CIA Leak Case Watch: Cheney, Libby, Rove “Secretly Spread Rumors”

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Former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson listen to questions at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington July 14, 2006. Plame sued Vice President Dick Cheney , top White House aide Karl Rove and others on Thursday for their role in disclosing her classified CIA employment.

AP: Plame Says Government Betrayed Her Trust

Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said Friday they decided to sue Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove because they engaged in a “whispering campaign” to destroy her career.

Plame told at a news conference she trusted the government to protect her and that the government “betrayed that trust. I’d much rather be continuing my career as a public servant than as a plaintiff in a lawsuit.”

Right. And you and your husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, are not Democrat Party partisans who want to embarass President Bush and the GOP administration.

Give Flap a BREAK.

Instead of confronting Wilson on his criticism, the lawsuit said, the White House officials “embarked on an anonymous ‘whispering campaign’ designed to discredit … (the Wilsons) and to deter other critics from speaking out.”

The lawsuit alleges that Cheney, Libby and Rove “secretly spread rumors” that Plame used her position at the CIA to get her husband sent on the Niger trip. It accuses the White House officials of violating the Wilsons’ constitutional rights to equal protection and freedom of speech. It also accuses the officials of violating the couple’s privacy rights.

Thw Wilson’s have a substantial burden of proof in proving their allegations. Why have a news conference if you are pursuing this case in the courts?

Now, wasn’t the news conference arranged so they could make more on writing books and other media?

This lawsuit is going nowhere.

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Former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson arrive to speak at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, July 14, 2006.

Update:

Captain Ed has the poop on the complaint and who the judge that the Wilson’s will now try to disqualify.  Ed is right about one thing……the Kossaks must be fuming……

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