Once you get used to fame, it's hard to let it go...
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said Friday they decided to sue Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove because they engaged in a "whispering campaign" to destroy her career.
Joe Wilson and his wife are long-time Democrats who like most long time Democrats, would attempt almost anything to hurt George Bush in order to coddle favor with the power players in the Democratic Party. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald found that no laws had been broken in the Valerie Plame leak affair, and only indicted Scooter Libby for misremembering what he said in an obscure conversation months before. The indictment had more to do with justifying the investigation than in actually catching somebody in a criminal act.
Here's how the statute concerning the exposure of covert operatives is read by most people...
In order to have illegally exposed a covert operative one must 1) have had to secure the information from classified information; 2) intended to use the information to expose her identity: and 3) that operative must have worked in a covert capacity at some point in the last five years.
None of those requirements were met in this case. Joe and Valerie Wilson have been used by the Left to attack the Bush administration. Now, the Left have cast the hapless "ambassador" and his CIA coffee-fetcher wife, and moved on to use others in that capacity. The problem is that Joe and Valerie aren't ready to be washed-up puppets of the Left just yet, so they are extending their time in the spotlight by filing a ridiculous lawsuit. They figure if it has any traction at all, they can recover their status as darlings of the Democrat sympathizers in the media. When the law suit gets tossed out on lack of grounds, they will write a book blaming it's failure on the smear campaign waged against them by the Bush administration, followed by another round of whining appearances on Left-friendly talk shows like Oprah, Larry King, and the CBS Evening Variety Hour with Katie Couric.
These two pawns of the Left are almost too pathetically desperate to bother commenting on but, with the exception of the Israeli/Hezbollah war about to break out, it's an otherwise slow news day.
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