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Posted on 10/03/2003 12:07:31 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:16:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
October 3, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - The CIA officer whose cover was blown by an alleged Bush administration leak and her diplomat husband have retained a Washington lawyer to find out who they can sue and how much money they can seek. Also, the investigation, first focused on the White House and CIA, is now broadening to include the State and Defense departments, officials said.
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In early-1998, Chris served as lead counsel for the Navy officer threatened with expulsion from the service based on private information the Navy obtained illegally from America Online. Within a two week period, the case went from filing in federal court in Washington to a permanent injunction against the proposed Navy discharge. The case made new law under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, as well as under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" policy governing gays in the military. The matter received extensive media attention, especially concerning the Internet privacy issues.
Not sure if this is the "dood" - as the alternative "Chris Wolf" in Maryland appears to be a newbie.
Found the lawyer on martindale.com, and went to the law firm's website and found a ..... biography.
He works in media, copyright, privacy, and employment law. Good combination of interests for this "case."
Bullscheist! This has been, outside of the skewer Rush fiasco, the most ridiculous story of the past month!
If the administration interferes they'll lose the desired effect. Call it "political aikido." Make your opponent expend energy to destroy himself. The harder the Democrats try, the worse they harm themselves. They have unleashed something hard this last week, but this is not the end of it - they have more. GWB's greatest concern is whether the DNP can keep up this furious pace until it's time for him to begin campaigning. I fear they won't.
A courtroom is the PERFECT place to put to you many pertinent questions with regard to which the lamestream media has been predictably incurious.
BTW, Val, Novak only revealed that you were an employee at the CIA. Just a few days later David Corn revealed the nature of your cover (that you were under "nonofficial" cover, posing as a private sector employee) AND the focus of your mission. So you'll be suing Mr. Corn and his magazine then, right? Unless, that is, you or your hubby have some kind of special relationship with Mr. Corn at The Nation. That will have to be examined in court, I think, as will your and hubby's cozy relationship with Walter Pincus of The Washington Post, who got an early copy of Joe's New York Times editorial, and to whom hubby "outed" himself. (Credit to Wolfstar's intriguing thread for these points.)
But this is only a start. I think both you and hubby will spend quit a bit of time on the witness stand. Better bring a comfortable cushion to court.
Having trained in more than one style of Aikido, I have come to believe in the efficacy of the Aikibujutsu Tanren Kenkyukai style as taught by Obata Toshishiro SoShihan. Much less esoteric, much more aggressive than many of the "softer" Aikido styles. Considerably more martial in its approach.
Maybe this idiot has no questions...but I certainly do! First, exactly how have their legal rights been violated? From what I understand it was common knowledge she worked for the CIA. Second, she recommended her husband for this so called Fact-Finding mission to Africa and some yayhoo approved him despite his obvious bias against the Bush Administration. Third, if it's illegal to reveal the name of an undercover operative (or even acknowledge their ties with the agency) then I suspect the confirmation by the CIA to Novak means she wasn't covered by the law that they claim placed her and hubby at great risk and peril.
Finally, the fact that they are looking for who to sue and for how much they should try to extort from the public coffers makes me think this is another case of Follow the Money!
So, maybe what is first and foremost in their minds is a cozy retirement funded by the taxpayers and the possibility of doing as much scorched earth damage as possible on their way to that early retirement. What a couple of a$$holes!
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