PLAME'S LAWSUIT DISMISSED!!!

[FourScore]

A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal.

Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in 2003. Plame said that violated her privacy rights and was illegal retribution for her husband's criticism of the administration.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and said he would not express an opinion on the constitutional arguments. Bates dismissed the case against all defendants: Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_lawsuit

[Catherine Vincent]

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[pinto]

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[marmar]

3. The courts are stacked with right-wing hooligans....

A long-term project dating back to Nixon; And it's going to be a long-term project to undo the damage.

[Beelzebud]

4. Is anyone out there actually surprised by this?

[Major Hogwash]

5. No legal recourse. I don't understand this at all.

The judge says they didn't make a good enough argument that the case should be held in a federal court.

WTF?

Covert CIA officers are federal agents, so what state did the judge think the case should be filed in?

Makes no sense to me.

[melody]

6. Look what the courts did to the Christic Institute

We're all now on the level of the Christic Institute for them. Justice is
now purchased or won through servitude to the tyrant.

[rubberducky]

7. This is totally unbelievable!

[Bitwit1234]

8. SO it was OK to pursue two different cases against the president

of the United States....Paula JOnes and Genevive Flowers (don't exactly remember her first name). But you can't pursue a case against a vice president and a president's adviser. Damn what's the difference, OH I know the president was democratic and the VP is a republican. That's how it works folks when you are a dictatorship.

[NotGivingUp]

9. holy crap! and the shits just keep on comin'. nt

[Generator]

10. Life is not good