Darth Cheney Lawyers Up -- With Clinton Impeachment Counsel

[Dems Will Win]

DARTH CHENEY ARRIVES AT WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY
LAW OFFICE THIS AFTERNOON SURROUNDED BY SECURITY

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

Thank you God. Or Goddess. Or The Force or whatever! THis whole thing is going to court and Cheney is guilty, guilty, guilty--and we all know it.

This is a gift to the Dems for the mid-terms!

[eleny]

1. I hope Cheney is sleep deprived for his transgressions

He deserves to toss and turn until this is over.

[buff2]

3. He looks like the pillsbury dough-boy in melt-down

Have you seen CHEENEY lately? Hmfrh.......:puke:

[eleny]

15. "Hmfrh"

Effective!

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I hope his colostemy drain gets plugged up and he explodes

[eleny]

14. Now *there's a wish!

[buff2]

2. Why on earth would President Clinton have a repuke

defending him during the "impeachment" fiasco when the idiot only donates to REPUBLICANS??? Khrist,for someone so intelligent he sure made some stupid decisions.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Same reason Gore hired

Ted Olsen's best friend for the 2000 recount?

Go figure? Must be a small gene pool.

[napi21]

5. Because you ALWAYS choose the lawyer who you belividve is

most capable of defending you! Remember, no matter what personal or political feelings an attorney might have, his JOB is to defend his client to the best of his ability! ANY GOOD ONES DO THAT!

[pokercat999]

6. C'mon a lot of rich people donate for an advantage not

beliefs.

[Imagine My Surprise]

7. Mr. Clinton and George Bush's father are VERY close...

Barbara says Bill "is like a son." Does that help answer the question?:sarcasm:

[guinivere]

13. If you are in big, big trouble

you have to hire the smartest most shark-like lawyer you can afford.







YAY! Cheney's in trouble! YAY!

[H2O Man]

8. Interesting

I think that Robert Barnett was with that firm; he played "Dick Cheney" in the practice debates with Edwards in 2004.

[Tin Man]

9. Maybe Cheney is lawyering-up for an anticipated Fitzgeral indictment

I can hope, can't I?

[petgoat]

11. For a minute I thought you meant David Schippers nt

[Jack Rabbit]

12. Q: Mr. Wilson, did you have sex with that woman?

A: Well, yes. I'm the father of her twins.

Q: I knew it. You can't trust a liberal. They have sex with each other. You're a bunch of dirty. perverted and immoral traitors. You can't be trusted to tell the truth, can you?

[lonestarnot]

16. Woofuckingwhoooo! I hope they suck him dry of every dollar he's got

stashed!

[MissWaverly]

17. legal question

can you invoke National Security in a civil lawsuit, does it apply?

[tabasco]

20. Sure you can. That's the reason for the suit as I see it.

Have Mr. Cheney explain why exposing an important top-secret counter-terror operation was in the national interest.

Should be very interesting. :popcorn:

[MissWaverly]

21. if Clinton can be the subject of a civil suit then so can Cheney

[Rosemary2205]

18. Don't jump too fast

Cheney etc are sure to initially ask the case be declared invalid, or thrown out (not sure the LEGAL terminology) because the precedent it's based on is a bit different from this actual case (I think Olberman said the precedent is based on a case involving police officers - and Cheney certainly isn't a police officer) -- everything I've read said it's going to be VERY DIFFICULT for Wilson/Plame's attorney to convince the courts to be willing to even hear the case based on that precedent.

[Ian_rd]

19. Best. Photoshop. Ever. And why aren't the Democrats constantly

mentioning the leak in their new push for credibility on national security? How about this for a line in a commercial:

"The Republicans accuse Democrats of being weak on national security, and yet we have never leaked the name of a CIA agent working against nuclear proliferation."