BBC: Surprise 'won't derail CIA suit' (Plame/Wilson)

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Thursday, 31 August 2006, 21:25 GMT 22:25 UK

Surprise 'won't derail CIA suit'
By Richard Allen Greene
BBC News, Washington

Outed CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband, Bush critic Joseph Wilson,
plan to go ahead with a lawsuit against close associates of President George
W Bush despite a startling new revelation about the source of the leak
that blew Ms Plame's cover, one of her lawyers has said.

The new information "has no impact on the case. This case is about top-level
White House officials who conspired against Valerie Wilson," Melanie Sloan,
one of the Wilsons' lawyers, told the BBC, referring to Ms Plame by her
married name.

The Wilsons filed suit in July against Vice-President Dick Cheney; his former
chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby; and Karl Rove, George W Bush's top
political adviser, accusing them of intentionally revealing Ms Plame's
identity to discredit Mr Wilson.

But a new book due out next week claims that the original source of the leak
was Colin Powell's former deputy, Richard Armitage.

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5303202.stm

[brer cat]

1. Keep their feet to the fire!

I don't believe anyone in the administration would have outed a CIA operative without express permission from * or crashcart. And if Powell has to go down with them, so be it.

[rfranklin]

2. Armitage is another effort to muddy the waters...

They probably cooked up this "I did it by mistake" scenario after Libby got nailed.

[UpInArms]

3. Cheney, Libby and Armitage (and many others) are PNACers

<snipping to signatories>

Elliott Abrams    Gary Bauer    William J. Bennett    Jeb Bush

Dick Cheney    Eliot A. Cohen    Midge Decter    Paula Dobriansky    Steve Forbes

Aaron Friedberg    Francis Fukuyama    Frank Gaffney    Fred C. Ikle

Donald Kagan    Zalmay Khalilzad    I. Lewis Libby    Norman Podhoretz

Dan Quayle    Peter W. Rodman    Stephen P. Rosen    Henry S. Rowen

Donald Rumsfeld    Vin Weber    George Weigel    Paul Wolfowitz

(Letter to Clinton)

January 26, 1998



The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC


Dear Mr. President:

We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor.

<snipping to signatories>

Elliott Abrams    Richard L. Armitage    William J. Bennett

Jeffrey Bergner    John Bolton    Paula Dobriansky

Francis Fukuyama    Robert Kagan    Zalmay Khalilzad

William Kristol    Richard Perle    Peter W. Rodman

Donald Rumsfeld    William Schneider, Jr.    Vin Weber

Paul Wolfowitz    R. James Woolsey    Robert B. Zoellick

[goforit]

11. Prove the plots of the PNAC & you'll have proof of conspired plamegate

Bada bing.

I sincerely believe Joe Lieberman is also a silent partner of the PNAC.

[truthisfreedom]

4. thugs love to wait for facts to go down the memory hole and then use

distraction to try to cover up crimes. it's a republican thing, y'all.

[savemefromdumbya]

5. Woodward, Woodward my dear Watson

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Trip wires.

Armitage.


Then


Libby
Rove
Cheney
Chimp
Monopolist

[Peace Patriot]

7. Bought his way back in, did he (Armitage)? Jeez, the filth and skulduggery

and blackmail and black ops and thievery and murder and hideousness of the Bush Junta and its colluders in the war profiteering corporate news monopolies and in our party is beyond belief.

AAR kicks Mike Malloy off the radio, and, before I even know he's gone, I'm listening to Christopher Dodd--THE traitor Democrat, far, far worse than Lieberman--the Democrat who brought us Diebold and ES&S, in collusion with Tom Delay and Bob Ney--is on the Al Franken Show running for president.

Launched by Flabby-Brain's sub for the day--who kissed Dodd's butt big time--no doubt in collusion with Flabby-Brain himself, unfunny Al.

I mean it, Al. NOT FUNNY.

---------------

As for Richard Armsadealer, such trash. We once had people like Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin and Adlai Stevenson representing our country. Now we have garbage, landfill, rats' tails and old food. Vomit from rightwing 'think' tanks. Bush trash. Honest to God, sometimes I think it's a rightwing plot to INSULT us.

[Occulus]

9. You know what? I think WWII *never ended*.

I'm starting to think the Axis powers cooked up a plan to conquer by stealth rather than open military engagement. Their plan?

Get theirs into office over here.

Hey, it makes as much sense as anything else these days, and actually makes more sense than some real events that have occurred in the past six years.....

[Snivi Yllom]

8. see today's WAPO editorial on Wilson

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460_pf.html

End of an Affair
It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband.

[loudsue]

12. That's just too much bullshit.

The WAPO should just stfu.

:kick::kick::kick:

[reprobate]

10. The more I know about the Bush Bunch, the less I believe Paul Wellstone's

...plane crash was an accident.

Pardon me in advance for shouting, but THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I WOULD PUT PAST THIS ADMINISTRATION IN THEIR QUEST TO GAIN AND MAINTAIN POWER!

And that does include assassination.

[Massachusetts]

13. Call it as you see it......

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
Noam Chomsky