Cheney, Libby ask dismissal of civil complaint

MSNBC ^ | 11-14-06 | Joel Seidman

[STARWISE]

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has spent nearly three-year years investigating who revealed Plame's identity to Novak in 2003 but nobody was ever charged with the leak.

[STARWISE]

[lonster]

so then why isn't ole richard armitige being charged?? after all, he was the actual leak wasn't he??

[Txsleuth]

YAHOOTY...

Thanks, STARWISE....it is about time they start throwing these legal papers back in the faces of the Plames.

Next, they need to tell Fitzy to wrap up his investigation by Jan 1....after that, no more funding.

[stylin19a]

i would have liked them to get to discovery...then have the Wilons drop the suit.

[the Real fifi]

I've been playing with these papers which are lengthy and boring. In the context of these motions the defendants must not challenge the factual assertions of the plaintiffs which for the purpose of a motion to dismiss on the pleadings are taken as uncontested, so all these papers are on legal arguments. I think the arguments raised by Cheney and Libby are sound and the case will be dismissed.

[STARWISE]

The "separation of powers" statement is pretty strong, hmmm?

[the Real fifi]

The immunity arguments, the arguments that Bivens doesn't apply and the statute of limitations arguments are all strong. (Others are, too, but these seem to me to be hard for the plaintiffs to respond to.)

[Doctor Raoul]

Discovery is a wonderful disinfectant.

Wonder if Mrs Wilson's post-partum depression was really caused not by childbirth, but by no longer being able to deny to familiy and friends that she really did have sex with a dork like Joe...

[eric_da_grate]

"i would have liked them to get to discovery...then have the Wilons drop the suit."

Right on. The Wilsons would fold within a half-hour of interrogation. This fraud was conceived to get Rove and nothing more. The steam went out of the Dems and the press once Rove was cleared. This entire fraud was schemed from the moment Wilson sat down to write his NYT piece. The Time's subversive nature is already well established, I think.

Dems couldn't care less at this point. The Wilsons already helped serve their political purpose. Both these huckers, Wilson and Plame, will find work within the party soon enough.

[Mike Darancette]

Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney and his indicted former chief of staff, I Lewis "Scooter" Libby - who is awaiting trial on separate criminal charges of perjury and obstruction - have filed motions in federal court asking a judge to dismiss a civil complaint against them filed by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, former CIA employee Valerie Plame.

What a tortuous sentence all in an attempt to link Cheny to the criminal complaint.

[taxesareforever]

Next, they need to tell Fitzy to wrap up his investigation by Jan 1....after that, no more funding.

The rats be in charge. Unlimited funds to Fitzy to keep his investigation going.

[Howlin]

Scooter Ping!!!

[Peach]

Wonder if Mrs Wilson's post-partum depression was really caused not by childbirth, but by no longer being able to deny to familiy and friends that she really did have sex with a dork like Joe...

ROFL.

[Peach]

So I guess Armitage is really going to get a pass since he's become their poster child for attacking the administration.

[PeskyOne]

You make a good point! LOL

[holden]

why isn't ole richard armitige being charged?

No money easily ginned for sticking it to Armitage.
No media-desired sizzle in suing Armitage.
No valued target in such personal destruction.
No desire among potential plaintiffs to suck (sym)pathetic Armitage's life savings from him.

HF

[shhrubbery!]

"...the Wilson's filed a civil suit...

"...The Wilson's accused them..."

"...the Wilson's 'have not pled...'"

"...basic separation of powers principals..."

Dear MSNBC editors:

Please send your journalists back to grammar school.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[LibWrangler]

Thanks!