I see Joe Wilson must have been having breakfast, lunch and dinner with so-called reporters lately. He is making more "news".
I, for one, thinks he is just making noise. I really hope he does file a lawsuit. I'll even bring the popcorn & drinks.
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Plamegate: The civil war
Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson are considering a civil suit against administration officials. If they do sue, they'd better be ready for a vicious attack by White House proxies.
By Michael Scherer
Within days, if not hours, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case will announce the outcome of his two-year investigation. But Patrick Fitzgerald probably won't have the last word. For months now, ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, the covert CIA agent unmasked by the White House, have been preparing to file a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration officials who disclosed her identity and scuttled her career.
"There is no question that her privacy has been invaded. She was almost by definition the ultimate private person," said the couple's attorney, Christopher Wolf, of the law firm Proskauer Rose, on Monday. "Suffice it to say, they have been substantially damaged, economically and personally." He said the couple would make a final decision on filing a lawsuit after Fitzgerald has completed his investigation.
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"ultimate private person"
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/64/031202_VF_ValeriePlame.jpg
Even before the president's budget director parked his motorcycle outside the front door, there was an only-in-Washington feel to the Sunday night sendoff of NBC News White House correspondent Campbell Brown, on her way to New York and Today show stardom.
At the buffet at Brown's home in Adams Morgan, former ambassador Joseph Wilson IV waxed indignant about the perfidies of the senior administration officials who he believes leaked the identity of his CIA-agent wife, Valerie Plame Wilson. … The buzz, though, focused on a shy and attractive blonde who sat nibbling finger sandwiches and discreetly introduced herself only as 'Valerie.'
—Washington Post "Names and Faces" column, Oct. 22.
Plame … mingled unobtrusively last month at a party at the home of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn.
—Howard Kurtz, "CIA Agent Valerie Plame Goes Undercover in Vanity Fair," in the Dec. 3 Washington Post.
I can see that happening
It's like every 2-3 months Wilson pops back up in the news like clock work
bttt
Plame may be "a private PERSON," but the issue as to whether or not a crime was committed against her is whether or not Plame was "a covert ('secret') agent" or not and/or if she had been within the recent past (as defined by law, think it's five, seven, ten years or something, and any position prior to that defined timeframe is not punishable by law even IF she was of covert status beyond the time protected by law).
The issue is whether or not she even WAS "a secret agent" because so far, everything I've read indicates that she was not.
She was employed by the CIA, yes, but not in any protected, private/covert/"secret" sense at least in the last recent years. Her neighbors knew she worked there. She could be seen coming and going to and from the agency as an employee. It was known to D.C. press that she worked there.
OK, Mr. Wilson - let's see your tax returns for the past four years.
So here we have Wilson and Plame mingling with guests at a party hosted by Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post. No wonder we have had so little unbiased reporting on this story.
Defending yourself from the likes of these two would be a 'vicious attack'?
You cannot sue a sitting president for actions done while president. Clinton already proved that. (My apologies for the C-word)
