Plame lawsuit dismissed

If she wasn't undercover, why again is it an insult to undercover agents everywhere?

She'll blew her cover herself, by marrying a deployable Foreign Service Officer. That's sort of like a police chief marrying a mob-boss. They don't fit, and can't do credible work in their respective fields.

Nice assumption to suit your views, but do you have any proof, or just rhetoric to substantiate that this would have actually happened?

I know quite a few people that work far apart from their spouses. I know an E-8 in the Amry who's wife works in intel, and they see each other like once a year. Just because they are married doesn't mean they are sharing trade secrets, or information, believe it or not, some people are capable of professionalism.

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What an insult to undercover operatives who risk their lives, and anyone else
who dares fight to tell the truth in the face of a concentrated campaign to
deceive the American people.

"She wasn't undercover at that moment..." Well, let's hope the next one isn't
either, because Presidential administrations now have an arsenal of precedents
to use to silence people who speak up. If some of you Reps are cheering this,
I have one thing to show you:



She'll be able to pull all of these same tricks.

I guess Rova and Cheney really did think they'd have a "permanent Republican
majority."

What a**holes.

About the judge:

John D. Bates was appointed United States District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia in December 2001. He
graduated from Wesleyan University in 1968 and received a J.D. from
the University of Maryland School of Law in 1976. From 1968 to 1971,
he served in the United States Army, including a tour in Vietnam.
Judge Bates clerked for Judge Roszel C. Thomsen of the United States
District Court for the District of Maryland from 1976 to 1977 and was
an associate at Steptoe & Johnson from 1977 to 1980. He served as an
Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1980
to 1997, and was Chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's
Office from 1987 to 1997. Judge Bates was on detail as Deputy
Independent Counsel for the Whitewater investigation from 1995 to
mid-1997. In 1998, he joined the Washington law firm of Miller &
Chevalier, where he was Chair of the Government Contracts/Litigation
Department and a member of the Executive Committee. Judge Bates
has served on the Advisory Committee for Procedures of the D.C.
Circuit and on the Civil Justice Reform Committee for the District
Court, and as Treasurer of the D.C. Bar, Chairman of the Publications
Committee of the D.C. Bar, and Chairman of the Litigation Section of
the Federal Bar Association. He was a member of the Board of
Directors of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and
Urban Affairs. In 2005, he was appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to
serve on the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on Court
Administration and Case Management. In February 2006, he was
appointed by Chief Justice Roberts to serve as a judge of the United
States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. (Ed. Note - The
preceding paragraph was copied from his official biography.)

As a District Court Judge, Bates dismissed the GAO's effort to learn
with whom Cheney's energy task force conferred. On July 19, 2007, he
dismissed a lawsuit filed by Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband
against Vice President Dick Cheney and other top Bush administration
officials.

Judge Bates spent two years working for Kenneth Starr and the
Independent Counsel's office during the investigation into President Bill
Clinton, specifcially Deputy Independent Counsel under Ken Starr from
September 1995 until leaving in March 1997.

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there is no justice, just partisan patronage.

Oh, and last time the world checked, Joseph Wilson was right.

Dude, I was the BMOC at US Embassy, Asuncion, Paraguay, and saw this stuff at work. Hoss, lemme tell ya -- you can't operate overseas in any official capacity without having an invisible micro-probe inched up your hindquarters by the Host Nation. If you show up with a SPOUSE who works for the CIA on your dossier, or worse yet, with you in person, YOU AIN'T GET'N JACK DONE, PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING. Host Nation intel will be all over your hyde, from the second you awake until you crash again at night. Even then, they'll be outside, digging through your trash, or stripping and bugging your car. :eek:

Was his wifes covert status, or CIA position on his dossier? I know my security clearance isn't associated with my wife, even though she isn't a U.S. citizen it didn't effect my clearance. Probe they may, but if his wifes position was truely anything secretive, it wouldn't be displayed in an availible document.