This will definitely hurt book sales.
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame, left, and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, arrive for a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington in this July 14, 2006 file photo. On Thursday, July 19, 2007, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in the CIA leak scandal. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)
The Plame-Wilsons Get Frogmarched From Court.
The AP reports on their heartbreak:
WASHINGTON - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame lost a lawsuit Thursday that demanded money from Bush administration officials whom she blamed for leaking her agency identity.Plame specialist Tom Maguire actually predicted this months ago.
Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to disclose 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.
Bryan at HotAir can't stop laughing.
Jeff Goldstein has the Joe Wilson response to this heartache.
Macsmind has the Plame-out cartoon.
The ruling is HERE.
MORE... The stock market reacts to the heartache- sets new high... Coincidence?
...Or, a Rovian Conspiracy?
The Plame-Wilsons Get Frogmarched From Court"
ReplyDeleteFalse. "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."
That's a dismissal on jurisdictional grounds, nothing more. The 'frogmarch' crap is Gateway Pissant's idiotic little foray into hysteria.
And the ever-ignorant Gateway Pissant missed two little facts, which Larry Johnson over at No Quarter caught:
(1) "I was particularly intrigued that Judge John Bates referred to the claim made by Bush apologists–”that “Valerie Wilson sent her husband to Niger”—as “erroneous” (see page four of the opinion)."
(2) "[T]the Director of Operations for the CIA, Stephen Kapsis, provides a sworn affidavit detailing Valerie’s cover status. Anyone who continues to insist that Valerie was not undercover and not involved in sensitive operations is a goddamned liar, pure and simple."
Yet again, the CIA confirms that Plame was covert. Don't expect Gateway Pissant and the rest of Greater Wingnuttia to stop lying about this, though.
Oh no Jim! You pissed off "meatmush" again.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, when is Armitage going to be indicted? Just asking.
ReplyDeleteHow stupid is Meathead? Very stupid. Just because it was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds does not mean the suit has any merit...IDIOT. Secondly, here are some things the judge did say:
ReplyDeleteU.S. District Judge John D. Bates said that Cheney and White House aides cannot be held liable for the disclosure of information about Plame in the summer of 2003 while they were trying to rebut criticism of the administration's war efforts levied by her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
"The judge said such efforts were certainly part of the officials' scope of normal duties."
"The alleged tortious conduct, namely the disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's status as a covert operative, was incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform,"
Got that clown? Why do you continue to reveal your stupidity? Go back to your little website and continue to blog for nobody....Idiot.
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ReplyDeleteOMG.. they just can't stop LYING.. gah!!
excerpt:
[Armitage and Rove were the sources for that article]
well, that's the FIRST time i've heard or read that one.. no way!! 1) it's already been revealed that Armitage was the leaker, 2) VP was not a covert agent at the time, & 3) Fitzpatrick knew who the supposed "leaker" was BEFORE he opened "the made for MSM farce" of an investigation, not to mention Wilson being exposed as a LIAR on several fronts..
how the hell do they get away with this crap over & ove again is beyond me.. *sigh*
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U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said that Cheney and White House aides cannot be held liable for the disclosure of information about Plame in the summer of 2003 while they were trying to rebut criticism of the administration's war efforts levied by her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV."
ReplyDeleteExplain, Petey: How would revealing that Plame was a covert CIA agent "rebut criticism of the administration's war efforts levied by her husband"?
"VP was not a covert agent at the time..."
bg can't stop lying. It has been known for some time that Plame did indeed have covert status while working for the CIA. This has again been confirmed in an affidavit from Stephen Kapsis, Deputy Director of the CIA:
"At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."
Hey Moron Meathead,
ReplyDeleteThis was a civil suit against Cheney. Who leaked Plame's name? Armitage, you dope. It is very simple...for some that is. Stop clouding the issue with your non-sense.
Evasion noted. Ask Petey a question, and he runs away from it. Very fast.
ReplyDeleteExplain, Petey: How would revealing that Plame was a covert CIA agent "rebut criticism of the administration's war efforts levied by her husband"?
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ReplyDeletebuffalobutt.. read #8 & #9 page 4 of 34..
Valerie Plame was NOT a covert agent
Wilson LIED
Armitage was the so called "leaker"
Plamegate Book Says Armitage Leaker, Fitzgerald Knew
Fitzgerald Knew Sources Of Plame's "Outing" All Along
ah, there's lots more evidence, but suffice to say, the whole 3-ring circus was a sham from the get go..
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ReplyDeleteoh btw.. got a kick out of the date Filed 7/18/2007 on that affidavit.. a case of "not better late than never".. :D
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"Valerie Plame was NOT a covert agent"
ReplyDeletebg is lying. We know from the statements of Kapsis, as well as the unclassified employment summary released by General Michael Hayden, Director of the CIA, that in fact she was covert.
The question is: Why do bg and his fellow whackjobs continue to promulgate an obvious lie?
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ReplyDeleteWilson: Plame Not Clandestine When Novak Wrote Story
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[Despite the initial outrage over the outing of a covert operative for crass political purposes – which I joined in – the facts began to disprove that. Not only was Valerie Plame not an undercover operative but her identity was public knowledge well before the Novak story.]
albeit there's lots more where that came from..
bottom line: NON-CASE DISMISSED!!
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Well with his usual panache we of course see that meatbran grip on reality slip yet again...
ReplyDeleteQuoting a clueless fellow traveler meatbran just lend more credence to that old saw, "birds of a feather flock together"...LOL!
Good job meatbran!
I wonder when Plame and Wilson get their turn to be dragged into court for lying?
Victoria Toensing notes, " If You're Going to Charge Scooter, Then What About These Guys? "...
Tom McQuire over at Just One Minute has more: Fitzgerald's Future In Stand-Up and even some more: Geez, Did Anybody See That Coming?
Then again the libtards have been pushing Libby Lie for quite sometime now...
Can you say, " barking moonbat "?
When the facts disprove a whackjob lie, the whackjob ignores the facts. That's what the whackjobs here do. They are very good at advertising their ignorance.
ReplyDeleteIt has been known for some time that Plame did indeed have covert status while working for the CIA. This has again been confirmed in an affidavit from Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director of the CIA:
"At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."
None of these whackjobs knows a damn thing about the employment history of Valerie Plame. The Deputy Director of the CIA does, and he has stated that Plame was covert. That ends it. As Larry Johnson has pointed out, anyone who now claims otherwise is a goddamn liar.
Please, whackjobs, go right ahead and prove that you are all still goddamn liars.
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ReplyDelete[meatbrain said...
Evasion noted. Ask Petey a question, and he runs away from it. Very fast.
Explain, Petey: How would revealing that Plame was a covert CIA agent "rebut criticism of the administration's war efforts levied by her husband"?
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you answered your own question bb..
IT WOULDN'T & THEY DIDN'T.. DUH!!
they had ample evidence JW was lying.. hence, they didn't need to discredit VP.. as a matter of fact, JW admitted he got "carried away" and made up the Rove allegation out of thin air, go figure..
oh, and here's another very inteesting flasback..
"Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told me the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband -- he is a former Clinton administration official -- they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of undercover operatives'...
then there's this..
and this..
yada, yada, yada.. ;)
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ReplyDeleteow yeh, pradon tyop's.. :D
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ReplyDeletere: " barking moonbat "?
thanks juandos.. i've already put it to good use.. :D
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Notice that in order to continue making his argument, whackjob 'bg' must, as expected, continue to lie.
ReplyDeleteWe have known for some time that Plame did indeed have covert status while working for the CIA. This was confirmed last March when the CIA released an employment summary for Plame. It has been confirmed once again in an affidavit from Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director of the CIA:
"At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."
None of these whackjobs knows a damn thing about the employment history of Valerie Plame, though, like whackjob 'bg', they all pretend to be experts in the CIA's employment practices. The Deputy Director of the CIA does know the CIA's employment practices, and he has stated that Plame was covert. That ends it. As Larry Johnson has pointed out, anyone who now claims otherwise is a goddamn liar.
Please, whackjobs, go right ahead and prove that you are all still goddamn liars. I know you will obey me, bg. You can't help it. Lying is your only talent.
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ReplyDeleteAfidavit Filed July 18, 2007.. AFTER THE FACT!!
buffalobutt.. read #8 & #9 page 4 of 34..
[the CIA rolled back her cover effective July 14, 2003, the date of the leak]
hence, officially rendering the misleading charge of "covert agent at the time" obsolete..
keep on pushin' up daisy's bb.. ain't gonna change the facts, nor the bottom line..
FRITZ NON-CASE MEDIA BLITZ DISMISSED!!
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ReplyDeleteWOAH!! how did i miss this little CIA contraversy?? which way did they go George!! :D
excerpt from #11, page 4 & 5..
In October 2005, the CIA, exercising it's discretion under section 3.1(b) of the Executive Order, determined that the public interest in the disclosure of Ms. Wilson's employment and cover status for a specified period of time outweighed the damage to national security that might reasonably be expected from disclosure, Accordingly, the CIA lifted and rolled back Ms. Wilson's cover effective 1 January 2002 and declassified the fact of her CIA employment and cover status from that day forward.
pardon me, but that was way before Novak even thought of writing his column.. was it not??
WHAT A FREAKIN' FARCE OF A TRIAL, NOT TO MENTION AFFIDAVIT, NO WONDER IT WAS CONCOCTED POST FARCE!!
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ReplyDeleteuh btw buffalobutt.. that afidavit is nothing more or less than a sorry attempt at covering the CIA's meatbrain.. now i understand why they wouldn't verify VP's covertness one way or the other pre & during the Dem/MSM propaganda trial.. duh!!
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"WHAT A FREAKIN' FARCE OF A TRIAL, NOT TO MENTION AFFIDAVIT, NO WONDER IT WAS CONCOCTED POST FARCE!!"
ReplyDeleteTranslation: The ignorant whackjob calling itself 'bg' is claiming that Deputy CIA Director Stephen Kappes is a liar, in the absence of any evidence for that claim.
That's what lying whackjobs do, you see: Make libelous accusations against those charged with protecting this nation, without any facts to back up their claims.
We know the facts. And now we know that 'bg' is a goddamn liar.
To repeat the proof of 'bg's' dishonesty: Plame did indeed have covert status while working for the CIA. This has again been confirmed in an affidavit from Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director of the CIA:
"At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."
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ReplyDeletelol..
cover their CIA meatbrain afidavit:
Filed July 18, 2007
#9.. page 4
the CIA rolled back her cover effective July 14, 2003, the date of the leak.
#11.. pages 4 / 5
Accordingly, the CIA lifted and rolled back Ms. Wilson's cover effective 1 January 2002 and declassified the fact of her CIA employment and cover status from that day forward.
it's easy to see who's lying, they can't get their own status of VP straight.. but do carry on buffalobutt, at least at most, you keep your obsessive self busy..
it's said that idle hands are the devils workshop.. as for minds, yours is apparently on a mental tread mill..
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Yes, it is quite easy to see that 'bg' is lying. The two sentences he quotes, when read in the context of the entire affidavit, do not contradict one another and provide no evidence of dishonesty on the part of Mr. Kappes. 'bg' dishonestly ignores the full narrative that Mr. Kappes provides.
ReplyDeletePlame did indeed have covert status while working for the CIA. This has again been confirmed in an affidavit from Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director of the CIA:
"At the time of the initial unauthorized disclosure in the media of Ms. Wilson's employment relationship with the CIA on 14 July 2003, Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for whom the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."
'bg' continues to ignore the facts, thus demonstrating irrefutably his intellectual dishonesty.