NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2009
Court: CIA Didn't Violate Plame's Rights
N.Y. Court Upholds 2007 Decision that Barred Former CIA Operative from Revealing Length of her Tenure with Agency
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Former CIA analyst Valerie Plame testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 16, 2007, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (AP Photo)
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Interactive The Leak People and events surrounding the leak of a CIA officer's name.
In the ruling Thursday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court decision. It barred Plame from revealing the length of her tenure with the CIA.
The appeals court agreed that the agency made a good argument to keep the information secret.
Plame's identity was revealed in a syndicated newspaper column in 2003 after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, began criticizing the war in Iraq.
She and her publisher sued the CIA in 2007. They claimed they had a First Amendment right to publish her dates of employment with the CIA in her memoir.
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- Incredible for the US to deny Ms. Plame TELLING the truth whereas, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, D. Cheney and likely Harriet Miers...all have been involved in the likely disclosure of her name to the press
when it was expedient for the government to deny the truth of the 'uranium cake' from Niger that was simply a fraudulent document in the lead up to the US Invasion of Iraq.
The very likely same group of individuals who inspired or assisted in the creation of some information for the downfall of Dan Rather at CBS reporting on Bush's career with a fraudulent document, however the facts may have been true...the document was not.
The constant mis-statement of facts seems to be a real problem for Republicans and the appearance of two such fradulent documents at the center of our political debate of the Bush Administration seems to indicate there has been no change since the days of President Richard Nixon in both obstructing justice and hiding wrongdoing. Irangate during the Ronald Reagan Presidency is uncontested, but he was not impeached. Yet, somehow President Clinton was impeached but not removed for lying about a private affair...Somehow, sex between consenting adults does not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors as have been committed by the Reagan Administration against the Boland Amendment and the Bush Administration on kidnapping, abductions, war-mongering, and lastly lying to the American Public as to Iraq's "imminent attack" on the US, March 2003. - Reply to this comment
- Looks like these loosers just can't win.
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