Posted on 10/20/2005 8:12:04 PM PDT by STARWISE
Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame are preparing to file a civil suit against Bush administration officials.
Plame was the covert CIA agent allegedly unmasked by the White House. Now she is preparing to file a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration officials who may have disclosed her identity and scuttled her career, Salon.com reported Thursday.
"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.
Wolf said the couple would make a final decision on filing a lawsuit after special prosecutor Patick Fitzgerald has completed his investigation, Salon said.
If they do sue, Wilson and Plame could be the first litigants to depose senior White House officials since Paula Jones, an employee of the state of Arkansas, sued President Bill Clinton.
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What is the connection?
1. Wilson's wife recommended him for the trip to Niger.
2. Wilson then lied about his findings in Niger, claiming that Cheney had been responsible for sending him.
3. Any attempt to refute his charges required finding out why he had gone in the first place -- if not for Cheney.
4. Any search for an answer to the question of "Who sent Wilson?" would inevitably reveal that he had been sent by his wife.
Thus, when Wilson first went public with his lies, in May, he began a chain of events that would eventually lead somebody to the discovery of his wife's identity.
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