Valerie Plame's Lawsuit Dismissed

(CBS/AP)  A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in the CIA 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.

Plame's attorney, Erwin Chemerinsky, says they will appeal, CBS News reports.

CBS News has learned that Judge Bates, who was was appointed by President Bush, has ruled in favor of the Vice President before. In 2002, Bates dismissed a case filed by the General Accounting Office seeking information about the Cheney Energy Task Force meetings.

Plame's attorneys had said the lawsuit would be an uphill battle.

"Today's decision is just the first step in what we have always known would be a long legal battle and we are committed to seeing this case through," Amb. Wilson said in a statement.

Public officials are normally immune from such lawsuits filed in connection with their jobs.

Plame's identity was revealed in a syndicated newspaper column in 2003, shortly after Wilson began criticizing the administration's march to war in Iraq. Plame believes the leak was retribution and that it violated their constitutional rights.

Armitage and Rove were the sources for that article, which touched off a lengthy leak investigation. Nobody was charged with leaking, but Libby was later convicted of lying and obstruction the investigation. President Bush commuted Libby's 2½-year prison term before the former aide served any time.

A message seeking comment was left with Chemerinsky.

[torocaca]

BTW...this post is about Valerie Plame....

Posted by yamuttya at 06:36 AM : Jul 22, 2007


Yep, and s-temper has made it clear that she is the object of his sexxual fantasies, or perhaps, his sexxual frustrations.

He should run for political office (right-wing, of course). He's good at not answering the questions.

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The pharmaceutical industry is driven by profit motive, not by altruism, because good intentions do not result in invention and ingenuity. Posted by S_Temper at 11:31 PM : Jul 21, 2007
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That doesn't explain why prescription drugs are far more expensive in the U.S. than in other countries, especially Canada. Why isn't the cost of "invention and ingenuity" shared?

Also, you didn't say who your presidential choice is.

[yamuttya]

So, what do you end up with when a criminal in office appoints his own judges who end up presiding against his own cases? You get an administration that can do ANY illegal thing it wants... because no one will prosecute! Well, you'll have prosecutors, but the judges they go to will all just dismiss it.... the SUPREME court is Right Wing biased to the extreme now that it doesn't matter WHAT the people want... these guys are all shills for eachother. What we have now is a lawless society of sociopaths who believe they're above the law. The fact is, they are NOW above the law. Period.
Posted by CANYOUTELLME at 03:46 PM : Jul 19, 2007

[yamuttya]

BTW...this post is about Valerie Plame....

We covered health care weeks ago.....
Posted by yamuttya

[yamuttya]

Re: Health care.
The accident was on thursday.
I saw the doc on Friday.( long story , I was a mess , my fault )
The surgery was on Tuesday.
PS, the physio was excellent.
Today , I still play tennis just as badly as I did before the accident.( yes it was my right arm )Total bill......Zip
Health care??? Fantastic !

[yamuttya]

BTW...this post is about Valerie Plame....

We covered health care weeks ago.....

[yamuttya]

yamuttya, if everyone is covered, but everyone gets sh*tty health care, what good is that?Posted by S_Temper

Who told you we get bad health care?
I should know I'm Canadian.
In 2001 I broke a rib, my wrist and my elbow in
a bicycle accident.Toronto's best orthopaedic surgeon put a screw in my wrist and a clamp in my elbow.
Then I got 6 months of physiotherapy.
Today my arm is fine.
Total cost ?
About 10 grand I guess.
Why do I guess?
I have no idea, It was all free.
I've been paying taxes in Canada for a long time.
I paid for it, but it cost me nothing.

That's sh*&^%TTY health care ?

[yamuttya]

If Canada's system is so great, why do they have waiting lists for life-saving surgeries that US citizens don't have to wait for? Yes, we pay more, but we receive better health care.Posted by S_Temper

Not true.

All Canadians are covered. 40 million Americans are not, including millions of kids.
Do Canadians wait? Sure , sometimes, not all the time.....BUT THEY DO GET THE CARE.Tough luck for Americans who cant afford it.

Canadians pay LESS PER CAPITA than Americans and they are all covered.It's civilised.

It's a NO BRAINER , universal health care is vastly superior to the primitive US system.
Use your head !

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s_temper I like him because to me he exposes the bad in things, he makes us think, everything isn't the way I thought,you are right about his monotone voice but that is funny and makes the documentary. You must of seen it because he did go to France, England, And Canada, not to mention Quantonomo, Cuba, I really thought he exposed our health system as it is ,which to me I felt he was telling us these Pharmaceuticals are making far too much money off of the American people, you got to admit he was right about that.

[starleo146]

s_temper-- Let's explore that statement-- You vote republican because they are the lesser of two evils. Please tell me once again how the democrats are more evil than the republicans. Have you been reading the paper or do you watch tv EVIL is everywhere in this administration and started in the year 2000 and has progressively gotten worse. We probably wouldn't know anything about it all but when the people voted them out it all came out in the wash. Before we are through with all this we will have to use a lot of clorox to clean up this wash believe me.