Judge sides with CIA in suit over Plame memoir

[babylonsister]

Judge sides with CIA in suit over Plame memoir

By Edith Honan
Reuters
Friday, August 3, 2007; 3:21 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The ex-spy whose unmasking led to the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide cannot disclose the dates she worked for the CIA because the details were never declassified, a federal judge has ruled.

The decision, made public on Friday by U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones, was a victory for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which sought to block former agent Valerie Plame Wilson from including the dates in her upcoming memoir, "Fair Game."

Plame, along with publisher Simon & Schuster, filed a lawsuit in May against Mike McConnell, the U.S. director of national intelligence, and CIA Director Michael Hayden, seeking to stop the CIA from interfering with publication of her book.

"The information at issue was properly classified, was never declassified, and has not been officially acknowledged by the CIA," the judge said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080301363.html

[merwin]

1. However, if it anonymously leaked out, I'm sure they wouldn't go after her.

Since they never went after the people who blew her cover.

And no, Scooter doesn't count. They went after him for lying about it, not for doing it.

[Kagemusha]

3. No, they sent her the info in an unclassified letter...

and it got placed in the congressional record.

But since that wasn't properly declassified, according to the judge, she can't publish it because the rules apply to her.

What a world.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Fwiw, Clinton appointee.