Now, will they please go away?
A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal.
Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in 2003. Plame said that violated her privacy rights and was illegal retribution for her husband’s criticism of the administration.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and said he would not express an opinion on the constitutional arguments. Bates dismissed the case against all defendants: Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
Judge Bates will soon be a nutroots target, I’m sure. Read this:
While Bates did not address the constitutional questions, he seemed to side with administration officials who said they were acting within their job duties. Plame had argued that what they did was illegal and outside the scope of their government jobs.
“The alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson’s comments and attack his credibility may have been highly unsavory, ” Bates wrote. “But there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration’s handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants’ duties as high-level Executive Branch officials.”
The Wilson/Plame move is moving forward, so unfortunately, this ain’t the last we’ll hear from the publicity-hungry duo. Ugh. Vanity Fair, indeed:
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Do they know the Manhattan Steampipe Incident was a Karl Rove plot to intimidate them, and silence them? I’m sure scared to speak out now, what with steampipes bursting at “random”.
Truth to Power.
Thrown out on jurisdictional grounds meaning it could come back. Not endgame yet, I don’t think.
” Plame said that violated her privacy rights and was illegal retribution for her husband’s criticism of the administration. ”
If she was concerned about her ‘privacy rights’ being violated, then why did she not sue Richard Armitage who admitted to being the person to first speak of her identity?
Bravo to this judge for seeing through the political knife wielding of this partisan ‘Vanity Pair’.
Nope.
This is their new career. Just like Cindy Sheehan won’t go back to her previous job, and return to her life, Plame/Wilson’s “Career” is now this, and they will never go away.
(just my opinion, I could be wrong)
There’s a woman who leads a life of flim flam.
To everyone she meets she gets ever stranger
With every move she makes, another picture he takes.
Odds are they won’t preen again until tomorrow.
Secret Agent Woman. Secret Agent Woman.
They’ve given you a husband and taken way his brain.
Michelle, Do you mean the Wilson/Plame movie? Or are they going somewhere where they can’t bother anyone anymore (if only)?
For someone who worried about being outed and is now worried about her privacy, she sure is keeping her face in the public eye!
Kinda reminds me of the kid who played hide and seek by standing behind the picket fence.
( For you liberals….you can SEE through a picket fence )
Her perjury trial begins when?
…when hell freezes over….
And Al Gore says that ain’t happenin anytime soon….
Right out of the book sabotage. CIA Ivy league libbs that care more about lettuce pickers than our own security.
jrlingreenbay – “And Al Gore says that ain’t happenin anytime soon….”
Able to guzzle more energy than dozens of normal men! Producing more
hot air than a locomotive! Able to pile up carbon credits higher than a
tall building in a single bound!!!
Look UP in the sky! It’s ChickenLittle! It’s FlyingSnakeOilSalesman!
It’s the Sultan of [hanging]Chad[s]! It’s a Bloated Balloon! It’s the
Ayatollah of Heat! No, it’s CarbonMan in a jumbo private jet painted
green!
CarbonMan, strange visitor from an alternate reality who came to Earth
with claims and scary predictions far beyond those of mortal men,
disguised as Fat Albert, and now joined by other members of the Royal Green
League such as HummerMan and EcoCleaningWoman, they all fight a never
ending battle for science-fiction, hypocrisy and the Hollywood way!
It’s funny to see them celebrate court decisions they agree with, and complain how broken the process is when they don’t get their way.
Movie deal still exists though I’m sure. I wonder what all these people will do when Bush is out of office…time for a new hobby.
Because it wasn’t Armitage!!! It was that damned Rove and his stormtroopers. Don’t you remember all the MSM headlines when the ‘investigation’ was underway? What do you think, that the MSM would lie to us? Now who sounds like the paranoid sycophantic ex-CIA employee ?
It’s revolting those two liars got any coverage at all. It’s also revolting that the MSM didn’t delve into the lies of this couple. Talk about agenda. Unbelievable.
Plame is only staying in the limelight because Rush called her a ‘babe’.:):)
Sometimes they play dress up – she gets on her spy costume and sends him to the grocery store to look for Yellow Cake. He comes home and writes a report on all the rotting lettuce he found…
Yep AlohaGuy and I bet she tapes an AM radio to the heal of her shoe.
/man, am I dating myself
LOL…feralcat I’m callin you butter cause you are on a roll today….
Feralcat #12 – loved it, priceless.
As far as Plame – which administration in which century is going to go after her for perjury? She and the former Ambassador remind me of two grade C actors trying to audition for Grade A parts. They’re cheap, slick and way too glib. In Washington D.C. that must put them on the A list.
I’m beginning to believe we can live without the CIA. The DIA seems to have a better work ethic these days. The CIA is not what it use to be (pre-Klinton). It seems Komrade Klinton’s influence on the once great agency has been more than corrosive.
I’d compare them to Reagan’s co-star Bonzo … but that would be an insult to Bonzo …
Bush failed by not doing a massive cleaning of house when he first got into office. The Uniter not the Divider thing… What a waste. We’re paying for it now.
Florinda: Why didn’t I marry you instead of Esteban?
Don Diego (Zorro’s alter ego): Probably because he asked you and I did not.
good ferral cat, very good. The plames are just typical lying liberals that would rather tell a lye than the truth.
Michelle’s right. The netnuts are pointing out that the judge in the case also dismissed the suit against Cheney’s office for the energy task force records.
BTW – did we ever decide who was going to play those two in the movie? I think without a doubt Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would be perfect.
Vapid, empty headed do gooders the both of them. And while Pitt is kind of scruffy looking compared to the debonaire Joe, if she wasn’t such a lying witch Valerie would give Angelina a run for her money in the babe department. She looked awesome at that House hearing a couple of months ago.
(Stop gushing, I know…)
ROFL @ jrlingreenbay #10
If there is any justice this bogus suit will at least cost those two idiots a pile of money in lawyer fees and/or court costs.
What really sucks is that it won’t cost them a dime personally. They have enormous donations to use to “right the wrongs of George Bush!”
They’ll be sucking off of limosine liberals for decades.
Judge to Val:
“Your spy-fu is weak — take a hike.“
Feralcat, secret agent woman sounds like it could be a great Rush parody song. My comment on the Plames is that her bogus outing has to be the best thing that has happened to them. They should be forced to pay royalties to Libby, Rove and Cheney.
I wish.
minpinmom said:
Feralcat, secret agent woman sounds like it could be a great Rush parody song.
OK, I have taken it about as far as I can. Rush will have to do any “fine tuning”.
There’s a woman who leads a life of leisure.
To everyone she meets she says HI stranger
With every move she makes, another photo he takes.
Odds are he won’t preen again until tomorrow.
Secret Agent Girl. Secret Agent Girl.
They’ve given you a husband and taken away his brain.
Beware of prissy faces that you find.
A prissy face may hide an evil mind.
Ooh be careful who you marry, or he’ll give you away.
Odds are he won’t preen again until tomorrow.
Secret Agent Girl. Secret Agent Girl.
They’ve given you a husband and taken way his brain.
Perjury in court on the stand suing one day
Liein’ in a Washington Post story the next day.
Oh don’t let the wrong words slip, while chasing persuasive tips.
Odds are you won’t lie again ’till tomorrow.
Secret Agent Girl. Secret Agent Girl.
They’ve given you a husband and taken way his brain.
There is only one other power-whorey couple more deserving of each other, and more attention-needy, than these two – the Clintons.
“U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds….”
Dismissed on a technicality because it’s the wrong jurisdiction?
“Plame’s attorneys had said the lawsuit would be an uphill battle.” They milked it for all it’s worth and, hopefully, it’s over now.
Schadenfreude.
I wonder if that judge is a bill&hill apointment
I think you meant to say EcoCleaningMan and HummerWoman. That way Monica Lewinsky can play the latter.
ROTFLMAO!
In the spirit of “The 2 Coreys” here comes the “The Plames!” reality show.