Posted on 09/13/2006 12:32:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
CREW Announces Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson to Add Armitage to Civil Suit
9/13/2006 2:25:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Naomi Seligman Steiner of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 202-588-5565
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced today that it is adding former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage to the lawsuit filed by Valerie Plame Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove and Vice President Richard Cheney. CREW represents the Wilsons in the litigation.
A new book by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, 'Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War', discloses that Armitage was the first administration official to reveal that Valerie Wilson worked for the CIA. Armitage told this information to reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Novak. Armitage has since confirmed his role and has admitted that he learned that Ms. Wilson worked for the CIA from classified documents. Novak has also confirmed Armitage as his initial source.
As a result of Armitage's disclosures of this information and the resulting publication of Mrs. Wilson's CIA employment, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson suffered gross invasions of their privacy and Mrs. Wilson lost the ability to continue working as a covert CIA officer. Armitage is being sued for violating the Wilsons' constitutional right to privacy, Mrs. Wilson's constitutional right to property, and for committing the tort of publication of private facts.
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The "Scandal About Nothing" continues.
Her streetwalking days will be dragged out in open trial.
These people are going to very, very unhappy when Discovery gets underway...
I don't see how there could be 4 people who were the first to disclose her identity to the media.
Oh, they'll find some tortured way of connecting Armitage to the Bush White House. It'll make the flow chart describing the "Vast Rightwing Conspiracy" look like childsplay, but they'll make some kind of connection.
Dems just love playing "6 Degrees from Kevin Bacon" with their conspiracies.
He'll cut a deal to avoid any damages, in exchange for testifying about how Karl Rove and Dick Cheney ordered him to do it (no doubt from their secret bunker using their mind control ray).
The american people should sue Armitage for all our money back due to his silence.
They should have appointe Jerry Seinfeld Special Prosecutor.
Scooter ought to sue the crap out of Armitage.
The presiding judge (if there is one supervising this mess), should start letting the others out of this lawsuit.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
;)
I would not be too surprised if the statute of limitations has passed. This happened a long time ago.
And write lots of books. Fiction, of course.
This ought to be good.
Hissy Mathews has something to talk about again.
>>> These people are going to very, very unhappy when Discovery gets underway...
The Wilson's will drop the suit as soon as they have milked all the fame and book sales from it. They will not have to go to discovery.
Didn't Linda Tripp's lawsuit for similar illegal activities against her government employer get kicked out of court?
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