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Appeals court upholds CIA leak lawsuit dismissal Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:01pm EDT By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday dismissed former CIA analyst Valerie Plame's lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and several former Bush administration officials for disclosing her identity to the public. The Court of Appeals in Washington dealt another setback to the former spy, who has said her career was destroyed when officials blew her cover in 2003 to retaliate against her husband, Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson.

As the negotiations with the Mad Hatter of the Middle East, Iran’s President Ahmandinejihad* grew more tense, the Mad Hair of the Far East became the whack-a-mole of the Independence Day holiday. In an obvious bid to remain (literally) on the radar of the West, Kim (“Feckless Leader”) Jong-Il popped a few missiles to prove that Persian carpets were not the only thing he had in common with the mullahtocracy in Tehran. Some people will do anything to stay in the news cycle. We’ve seen it time and time again – the fading celebrity, the forgotten cause celebre, at the...