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The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the case of a former CIA agent who sought compensation after she was publicly revealed to be a secret operative.
Hopefully this’ll be the last gasp in the saga of the Plame-Wilson’s dishonest attempt to claim that the Bush Administration “outed” her as a form of political attack.
In short… Joe Wilson spent a few short weeks vacationing in Niger, and used what he didn’t learn on vacation to write a factually inaccurate attack piece on the Bush administration. Shortly thereafter, Richard Armitage, a career bureaucrat working for the State Department, told Robert Novak that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA employee, a fact that Novak then published. Outraged that their privacy had been so invaded, the Plame-Wilsons went on a years-long publicity campaign to impugn the reputations of anyone who disagreed with them, with particular emphasis on Bush and Cheney. This led to the now-defunct lawsuit, which attempted to sue Cheney for releasing her identity as a “covert CIA operative” *years* after if was revealed that it was actually Armitage.
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I love how they always trot out “constitutional rights”. I’d be surprised if it applies even 10% of the time it’s invoked.
OK, one more once for the slow people. Valarie was not an “agent”. She was never a “covered asset”. She was a book reader and list maker. And from her released proficiency reports she was a piss poor one at that.