Cheney and Rove Sued over CIA Treason
by James Buchanan
In a surprise move ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame is suing Karl Rove and Dick Cheney for exposing her identity. Rove and Cheney have escaped justice -so far- and it looked as though they would ride out the last years of Bush’s presidency free and clear. The filing of a civil lawsuit will throw the spotlight on these individuals and could easily raise a public outcry for a criminal prosecution.
A recent news article reports “The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, accused Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby of participating in a ‘whispering campaign’ to reveal Plame’s CIA identity and punish Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration’s motives in Iraq.” (more…)