Plame plans to sue White House officials - UPI

[jocapo]

These guys are American heros!!


http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051020-113650-5684r

[sepia_steel]

1. As well she should!!

Yes! :toast:

[kikiek]

2. That will force the release of more information I bet. Good move.

[still_one]

4. they will either claim executive privledge or security concerns

[kikiek]

8. Not sure that will work for much of it. Seems like we have a lot of info

out there already.

[1monster]

15. How so "executive privilege"? The GOP screwed themselves on that

when they got the Supreme Court to rule that a sitting President was not immune to civil lawsuits when they went after Clinton re: Paula Jones. Ergo, if even the President is subject to civil lawsuits while in office, how can staff members not also be subject to civil lawsuits?

While I know that the hypocricy of the neocons knows no bounds, surely this would be more flightless than an ostrich.

[still_one]

26. then how come it worked when they tried to get information about

the energy meetings cheney had prior to the iraq war?

[pinto]

3. Ha! Nice shot. Advantage Plame.

[NMDemDist2]

5. ROFL

:woohoo:

:yourock: Valerie!

[roguevalley]

6. discovery is going to be awesome. i wonder if cheney will hold

bush's hand?

[KaryninMiami]

7. Good for her- well done Valerie! Smart and very important move.

A round of applause for her is definitely in order!
Let's hope she gets a nice group of CIA folks to support her case and be witness for what was done to her by those neocons. (those not in covert positions of course). This is a very good thing!

[seattlemetal]

9. I hope this wont enable an 'O.J.' type ending...

you know...where Bush promises to get the real leakers after rove and libby are aquitted? then they get sued in civil court and lose there...

then retire fat and happy on an equisite golf course....

[kikiek]

18. "After Rove and Libby are aquitted?" If indicted I don't see that ending.

[TexasLawyer]

10. The Paula Jones chicken comes home to roost

on Republican heads.

[xray s]

13. Roost?

don't you mean 'shit'?

[TexasLawyer]

21. much more accurate verb

yes, that's exactly it.

[Gregorian]

23. Or Chicken hawk?

But yes, it does feel satisfying in an apocalypic kind of way.

[Doctor_J]

11. White House under siege by real americans

Hallejuah. The republic might be saved after all.

[antonialee839]

12. Excellent, it's about time the Monkey is placed under oath.

[bluestateguy]

14. She should ask Judicial Watch for help

Seriously. They have filed some suits against the Bush Administration. It might be worth a try.

[robbedvoter]

16. Nope. This should be a bona fide law suit - not a circus to promote

a delusional hack.

[Demobrat]

17. Good. At the very least this will cost the defendants

a few arms and legs in legal fees. Then they can sit in jail on the criminal charges and wonder how in hell they are going to pay their bills - just like real Americans.

[sofa king]

19. Ah, such beautiful irony from the Reverend Moon.

Gather round the Wikipedia fire, children, and learn the story of Paula Jones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jones

Now, I don't want to tell the story to you when you can brush up on it yourselves, but I'll drop a few names. Scaife. Hannity. Coulter's in there. And of course... the Clenis.

But wait, you say! There's less irony in that story than in an Alanis Morissette song.

One very important thing to know is that back in the dark ages of the 1990s it was not even a http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/government/jones/">legally settled matter that the Presdient could be sued. Prior to Paula, it was widely thought that since a President was assumed to be immune from criminal indictment, a President should also be immune to civil suits.

But with the ace legal help of Ann Coulter and Ted Olson (and probably the entire right-wing legal community), and careful shepherding of the case through the right-wing press including the Reverend Moon's Washington Times (he also owns UPI now, publisher of this subject article), Paula managed to get Clinton v. Jones case all the way up to the Supreme Court. They decided that, while the White House is deserving of great respect, the President can in fact be sued, much to the merriment of every single one of those election-stealing bullshit war-starting money laundering pond scum sons-of-bitches.

Now do you feel that irony? Oh yeah.

[Carolab]

20. Hell, let's ALL sue him!!!

After all, we have multiple grounds for a HUGE class action suit.

[Gregorian]

24. Why haven't the 9/11 families done this?

Or maybe they have.

Sue the bastards into outter space. Republican monkeys in space!!!!

[Carolab]

25. They HAVE. There are TWO lawsuits out there.

See Mariani v. Bush and Rodriguez v. Bush.

They are RICO suits.

http://www.911forthetruth.com/

Also, see Stanley Hilton's suit:

TAXPAYERS OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS,
v.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT; GEORGE TENET, CIA DIRECTOR; ROBERT MUELLER, FBI DIRECTOR; CONDOLEEZA RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , ET AL., DEFENDANTS.

http://www.911review.org/Wiki/StanleyHiltonComplaint.shtml

Hilton's suit got thrown out on the grounds of "Sovereign Immunity"--because he sued the government.

You need to sue individuals.

[NVMojo]

22. Excellent and it creates some more pain and torture for the bastards!