Cheney, Libby ask dismissal of civil complaint, Accused Of Destroying CIA Agent Carreer Options

[batmanchester]

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney and his indicted former chief of staff, I Lewis "Scooter" Libby - who is awaiting trial on separate criminal charges of perjury and obstruction - have filed motions in federal court asking a judge to dismiss a civil complaint against them filed by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, former CIA employee Valerie Plame.

Vice President Cheney's attorneys argue that the suit should be dismissed on various grounds including that, "the Vice President is entitled to qualified immunity," and that Cheney is "absolutely immune from suits for civil damages."

The lawyers for the Vice President also write that the civil action by the Wilson's exceeds the two-year statute of limitations for such filings.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720396/

[JerryB9105]

Here's what one of their own has to say about this --

The most insidious of traitors (GHWB):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvu3Ecnvd74...related&search=

[batmanchester]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyew9zbbAAc...related&search=

good one jerry. here's another that was right under that one...........

[Sanders]

Jones can pursue lawsuit, Supreme Court rules
The Chronicle, May 27, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Paula Jones can pursue her sex-harassment lawsuit against President Clinton while he is in office, the Supreme Court ruled today.

The Constitution does not shield the president from having to face lawsuits over acts unrelated to his official duties, the justices ruled unanimously in a case that already has been a major embarrassment to the president

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/pag...5/27/jones.html

Now, unless outing a CIA agent is one of the duties of the office of the Vice President, I don't see where they have a case.

Then again, I've seen a lot of nutty stuff happen over these last several years... <_<

[JerryB9105]

And here's yet another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6L6x0oim-w...related&search=

GW says 'take it to the Justice Department' // (until he got caught)

[Cary]

Ooops. Seems the sword cuts both ways. LOL See you in court DICK.

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/08/16/pl...ney-to-testify/

Plame Attorney to Use Paula Jones Precedent to Force Cheney to Testify

The biggest travesty wrought by the Supreme Court in the 1990s was its unanimous decision that Paula Jones could sue Pres. Clinton while he was in office. (This was followed by their biggest travesty perhaps ever but certainly of the millenial decade, in December 2000, when they voted along party lines to give George W. Bush the presidency over Al Gore.)

But here is how the worm might turn:

    A lawyer plans to use a legal precedent that allowed President Bill Clinton to be sued while in office to force Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove to testify in a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband.

    California attorney Joseph Cotchett said he will ask a federal court to order Cheney, his ex-chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Rove to testify in depositions about their role in disclosing her classified status.

    The civil lawsuit accuses them and others of conspiring to publicly identify Plame as a CIA agent to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for writing in an op-ed piece that the Bush administration twisted intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.

    Cotchett, who took over as trial counsel in Plame’s case on Tuesday, said legal precedent for whether Cheney and the others could claim legal immunity in the case comes, in part, from Paula Jones’ sexual harassment case against Clinton.

    In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling that neither Clinton “or any other official has an immunity that extends beyond the scope of any action taken in an official capacity.”

    In order to be dismissed from the case or avoid testifying, Cotchett said, lawyers for Cheney and the other men would have to argue that they were acting on government business if they are found to have leaked Plame’s name to the media.

    Federal law makes it a crime to knowingly reveal the identity of a covert agent.