Plame lawyer plans to force Cheney, Rove testimony; Cheney Lawyers Up

[ProSense]

Plame lawyer plans to force Cheney, Rove testimony

By Gina Keating 2 hours, 17 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer plans to use a legal precedent that allowed President Bill Clinton to be sued while in office to force Vice President
Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove to testify in a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband.

California attorney Joseph Cotchett said he will ask a federal court to order Cheney, his ex-chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Rove to testify in depositions about their role in disclosing her classified status.

The civil lawsuit accuses them and others of conspiring to publicly identify Plame as a CIA agent to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for writing in an op-ed piece that the Bush administration twisted intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the
Iraq war.

Cotchett, who took over as trial counsel in Plame's case on Tuesday, said legal precedent for whether Cheney and the others could claim legal immunity in the case comes, in part, from Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against Clinton

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060816/pl_nm/bush_leak_dc_1

Cheney Lawyers Up -- With Clinton Impeachment Counsel

By Justin Rood - August 15, 2006, 2:01 PM

Vice President Dick Cheney has hired a lawyer to defend him against the Valerie Plame/Joseph Wilson civil suit, court documents reveal.

The lawyer, Emmet T. Flood of Williams & Connolly, certainly has White House experience: he was a member of former president Bill Clinton's impeachment defense team. Despite that, he appears to be a reliable Republican: a check of campaign donor records shows he has given solely to GOP candidates.

Cheney is being sued for unspecified damages by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, for revealing her identity and profession.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001347.php

[Monkeyman]

1. You might say he is guitly as hell

[spindrifter]

2. He couldn't very well go pro se in the Plame suit.

He wouldn't have the time to show up in court and run his monkey business.

[ProSense]

3. Taking the Plame civil suit awfully serious! (OP edited) n/t

[snowbear]

4. "Cheney lawyers up"

..Wonder if he'll liquor up too?

[AusGail]

5. If Cheney and Rove can have a member of Clinton's defence team can

Valerie Plame hire Ken Starr?

[saltpoint]

6. I think Uncle Dick is finding Valerie & Joe are a formidable duo.

He knows they're as adept, or more, with the system as he is.

He picked a fight. He got one.