young lioness
07-13-2006, 04:46 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, 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 rest of the article can be found here (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/13/cialeak.lawsuit.ap/index.html).
It will be interesting to see what happens with this case, since Fitzgerald only charged Libby in the investigation.
ETA: If a mod could correct "Valorie" to "Valerie" in the title, I would appreciate it. A former co-worker spelled her name that way, and it wasn't until after I posted that I realized I used the wrong spelling. Thanks.
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 rest of the article can be found here (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/13/cialeak.lawsuit.ap/index.html).
It will be interesting to see what happens with this case, since Fitzgerald only charged Libby in the investigation.
ETA: If a mod could correct "Valorie" to "Valerie" in the title, I would appreciate it. A former co-worker spelled her name that way, and it wasn't until after I posted that I realized I used the wrong spelling. Thanks.