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For Santa Feans Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, targets of human- rights assaults by then-Vice President Dick Cheney and assorted other Bush-administration baddies for Wilson's truth-telling in the face of lies that led our country into the Iraq disaster, a bit of consolation, and maybe more: Just this summer, the Supreme Court squelched their lawsuit against Cheney and presidential aides Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby. As Plame and Wilson put it in a Fourth-of-July-weekend commentary for The New Mexican, our nation's highest court signaled that "federal officials can use their publicly funded positions to attack political adversaries without consequence.
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The new e-mail message on Valerie Plame Wilson's BlackBerry was from Australian megastar Naomi Watts. Watts (Mulholland Drive, 2001; The Ring, 2002; and 21 Grams, 2003) plays the former covert CIA agent in an upcoming film version of Plame Wilson's memoir, Fair Game. Apparently the actress was just checking in on Plame Wilson's preparations for the film's May 20 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
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WASHINGTON, July 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In an Associated Press article originally issued the morning of July 15, 2005, a statement by former ambassador Joe Wilson was falsely taken to mean that his wife was not an undercover agent at the CIA at the time of Robert D. Novak's column in July 2003. During the early afternoon of July 15, 2005, the Associated Press issued a corrected version of the article noting Wilson's clarification that "his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent because of the leak, not that she had stopped working for the CIA beforehand. Since Plame's covert status is one of the central questions in the entire matter, all media outlets that carried the initial incorrect Associated Press article should run an immediate and prominent correction, in addition to using ...
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With the emergence of Sen. John McCain as the presumptive Republican nominee, the choice for the Democrats in the 2008 presidential election now shifts to who is best positioned to beat him, in what promises to be a more hard-fought campaign -- and perhaps a nastier one -- than Democrats had anticipated. Sen. Barack Obama's promise of transformation and an end of partisan politics has its seductive appeal. The Bush-Cheney era, after all, has been punctuated by smear campaigns, character assassinations and ideological fervor.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- VelvetRevolution.us, a large coalition of organizations and citizens dedicated to honest government, has done an analysis of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and its probable effect on the sentencing of any senior White House official convicted in the Valerie Plame affair. By going after Wilson and his wife, those officials apparently committed serious crimes which they then compounded by obstructing justice and committing and suborning perjury. As a result, they have virtually ensured that, if convicted, they could receive a sentence up to life in federal prison under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, which are used to compute sentences based on severity offense levels. The higher the level, the greater the sentence, and federal courts rou...
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Like many of the best who play politics for keeps, Rove's arsenal includes strategic use of the off-the-record chat with reporters. Close the door for just a second,' he told a reporter in a 2000 interview at his office at George W. Bush's presidential campaign headquarters in downtown Austin.
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Valerie Plame yesterday accused the Bush administration of "shameful conduct" in the leak of information to reporters about her job at the CIA, saying the "outing" forced a premature end to her career at the agency. I and my former CIA colleagues trusted our government to protect us as we did our jobs," Mrs. Plame said during a press conference formally announcing her filing of a lawsuit seeking damages in the leak against Vice President Dick Cheney, White House aide Karl Rove and Mr. Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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WASHINGTON - At least seven Bush administration officials outside the CIA knew Valerie Plame was a CIA employee before the disclosure of her name in a column by Robert Novak in July 2003, according to the indictment Friday of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. In no case other than Libby's does the indictment claim that one of the government employees provided the name to reporters. And the indictment does not identify anyone other than Libby.
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The exact same people who are now demanding prison for Libby for not remembering who told him about Plame are the ones who told us it was perfectly plausible for Bill Clinton to forget that Monica Lewinsky repeatedly performed oral sex on him in the Oval Office. [...] when Clinton was asked under oath-in a case brought by Paula Jones under the law liberals consider more sacrosanct than any passed in the 20th Century, section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act: "Mr. President ... at any time were you and Monica Lewinsky alone together in the Oval Office?" and he answered, "I don't recall," thai was perjury.
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PATRIOTS PEERING PAST PAYBACK POLITICS Regarding "Clinton stood up for Plame, will do same against GOP" (Feb. 24): Joseph Wilson's well-written commentary supporting Hillary Clinton for president fails to capture the mood and intelligence of the American public.
