THIS Ought To Be Amusing
Valerie Plame has filed a lawsuit against Vice-President Cheney, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career.
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, accused Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of revealing Plame's CIA identity in seeking revenge against Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration's motives in Iraq.
Several news organizations wrote about Plame after syndicated columnist Robert Novak named her in a column on July 14, 2003. Novak's column appeared eight days after Wilson alleged in an opinion piece in The New York Times that the administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war.
The CIA had sent Wilson to Niger in early 2002 to determine whether there was any truth to reports that Saddam Hussein's government had tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. Wilson discounted the reports, but the allegation nevertheless wound up in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address.
The lawsuit accuses Cheney, Libby, Rove and 10 unnamed administration officials or political operatives of putting the Wilsons and their children's lives at risk by exposing Plame.
This should be highly amusing once Joe and Val find out what they just exposed themselves to. The discovery phase will likely be more embarrassing for Plame and Wilson than they will ever believe possible. I think Joe and Val just got themselves enough rope.
UPDATE: AP coverage here.
UPDATE: Others ranging from amused to gleeful to outright ROFL and hurting themselves: Mac's Mind, Captain's Quarters, Just One Minute, Ankle Biting Pundits, StrataSphere, OTB, Wizbang, Protein Wisdom, In Search of Utopia does not see the minefield Plame just stepped into - hint: accusations need to be backed up in court, David (and I don't mean that snarkily).
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By David Anderson, Thursday, 13 July , 2006 @ 6:47 pm
I know. And like I said, win or lose, it will be interesting to see what we learn from the Civil case. And thanks for not being snarky.