Will Joe and Valerie Wilson Sue Richard Armitage? No

National Review ^ | 8/31/06 | Byron York

[Enchante]

Melanie Sloan, the executive director of CREW, is now the lead attorney for the Wilsons. In an interview with National Review Online, she said that if the account of Armitage’s outing of Plame in Hubris is correct, then “Armitage was just basically gossiping with [columnist Robert] Novak and just mentioned that Valerie worked for the CIA. His mentioning that to Novak is really not the same as the concerted effort that Cheney, Rove, and Libby made to get Valerie’s undercover identity out to the newspaper.”

“The underlying heart of the suit is about the conspiracy of these individuals to out Valerie Wilson in order to retaliate against Joseph Wilson,” Sloan continued, “and it doesn’t look at this point that Armitage was party to that plan.”

When asked about reports that Armitage told not only Novak about Mrs. Wilson, but also the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, Sloan answered, “Woodward never printed it.”

“I’m not trying to say that what Armitage did was just fine,” Sloan continued. “It is obviously not OK. But it did not have the same level of malevolence as what Rove, Cheney, and Libby were trying to do, which was to out Valerie to punish Joseph.”

[Enchante]

Joe and Valerie's latest stooge desperately tries to explain why they are not suing Armitage..... she wants to claim that the VWHC (Vast White House Conspiracy) clearly did not include Armitage but that Rove, Libby, and Cheney still had the (asinine) "revenge" motive that David Corn and Joe Wilson made up over too many rounds of scotch.

[RexBeach]

I wonder if Joe and Val will sue me some day? I mean, you know, just for the pure heck of it.

[Mo1]

Check this out

[twigs]

Have a book that needs publicity?

[hawkaw]

What a loser.

[b4its2late]

No surprise there!

[mkjessup]

Only one old saying applies here, and it certainly applies to the Ambassador and his non-Undercover Lover in spades:

"SUE AND BE DAMNED"

[okie01]

Why is it that poor Melanie sounds so incoherent?

Could it be that she has no case...???

[RexBeach]

Yeah, I do. Here's the working title: "Don't Try To Sh*t Me, Mrs. McGillicuddy!" Whaddayya think? :)

[Joe 6-pack]

I truly feel sorry for the Wilson-Plames...apparently there's not enough in the marriage to keep them happy with one another, so they seek fulfillment and meaning in their pathetic little lives by trying to bring others down.

Perhaps she needs a real man. Perhaps he does, too.

[depressed in 06]

“I’m not trying to say that what Armitage did was just fine,” Sloan continued. “It is obviously not OK. But it did not have the same level of malevolence as what Rove, Cheney, and Libby were trying to do, which was to out Valerie to punish Joseph.”

What part of, they didn't do it, is unclear?

[Enchante]

Joe and Valerie's latest.... they just can't give up the ghost when book contracts and fundraising with leftist loons are at stake.

Their lawyer has the wrong name and acronym on their organization:

It should be "Stupid Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington" -- then they would be known as

SCREW the public, SCREW the government, etc.

[Cindy]

PING

[rightinthemiddle]

Come on, let's play HARDBALL!


(Chrissy throws a hissy)

[Mo1]

“I’m not trying to say that what Armitage did was just fine,” Sloan continued. “It is obviously not OK. But it did not have the same level of malevolence as what Rove, Cheney, and Libby were trying to do, which was to out Valerie to punish Joseph.”

Why exactly are they going out of their way to make excuses for Armitage ??

[jazusamo]

Sloan is a former aide to Democratic lawmakers John Conyers and Charles Schumer.

Looks like Sloan, Wilson and Plame are the ones that should be being sued for conspiracy.

[jaydubya2]

"“I’m not trying to say that what Armitage did was just fine,” Sloan continued. “It is obviously not OK. But it did not have the same level of malevolence as what Rove, Cheney, and Libby were trying to do, which was to out Valerie to punish Joseph.”

So Val and greasy physique Joe still don't believe that the White house was not involved? I though you had to be smart to be an Ambassador?

[Doctor Raoul]

Plame Crash...

[Always Right]

His mentioning that to Novak is really not the same as the concerted effort that Cheney, Rove, and Libby made to get Valerie’s undercover identity out to the newspaper.

What concerted effort????? Did they even talk to the paper before the Novak leak????? This is all in the minds of the tin-foil hatters and the media whore book-writing suing Plames.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Can I sue them for just being "annoying?"