Hahaha. Ahahahahaha …
It looks like Rove and Cheney’s hounding of Clinton over Monica is going to karmically bite them on the ass: TalkLeft picks this up from Bloomberg News –
In an interview yesterday, Wilson said that once the criminal questions are settled, he and his wife may file a civil lawsuit against Bush, Cheney and others seeking damages for the alleged harm done to Plame’s career.
If they do so, the current state of the law makes it likely that the suit will be allowed to proceed — and Bush and Cheney will face questioning under oath — while they are in office. The reason for that is a unanimous 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Paula Jones’ sexual harassment suit against then-President Bill Clinton could go forward immediately, a decision that was hailed by conservatives at the time. ( My emphasis added)
And for all of your Plame Gate needs, take a look at
“My guess? If there are any charges in the offing for the VP, look for him being attatched to a borader conspiracy. That new house in Maryland is taking on a whole new meaning — sure hope it has nice views. Home confinement can get tedious looking at the same rooms all day long.”
And
“I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me like Miller’s lawyers — and I do believe this is the technically accurate term — freaked out when they saw Libby’s infamous “aspens turning” letter, seeing it as a potentially incriminating grenade that had been thrown in their laps. In the interests of protecting themselves, they probably decided to expose all of the related correspondence publicly as quickly as possible.
Update: In an article in the Washington Post tonight, Miller’s other main attorney, Floyd Abrams, throws another aspen branch or two on the fire:
Abrams also minimized Miller’s assertion that another source may have given her the name “Valerie Flame,” as she recorded it in the same notebook used for her first interview of Libby. Abrams said others may have mentioned Plame only “in passing. . . . The central and essentially only figure who had information was Libby.”
It was not clear at press time whether Abrams had also seen Lewis Libby with the devil in Salem, Massachusetts, or on the grassy knoll in Dallas.”
I must admit to enjoying this whole scandal hugely. A Republican government falling, woohoo! Corruption exposed! Bush fucked! To a political junkie, this is pure mainlining.
And then I remember that people died and are dying because of these shits. They have gutted a country of its consitution, laughed at international law, and installed a crypto-fascist regime.
Hang ’em all, a la Mussolini.
