Plame lawyer plans to force Cheney, Rove testimony

[kpete]

Plame lawyer plans to force Cheney, Rove testimony
16 Aug 2006 00:06:34 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES, Aug 15 (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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[Grateful for Hope]

1. This is making me smile

A superb example of "what goes around, comes around"

:-)

[Cleita]

2. It appears that the "lawyering up" has started.

Let the games begin!

:popcorn:

[ReadTomPaine]

3. Heh.

We need a few media outlets onboard with this.

[riderinthestorm]

4. Sweet revenge. I love the symmetry.

Rove and Cheney are already lawyered up. Let the games begin....

[Swamp Rat]

5. YEAH! Payback time!!!

:D