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Posted by Chris on July 13, 2006 at 6:36 pm.

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, Joseph Wilson, have filed suit against Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Karl Rove, Vice President Cheney and unnamed administration officials. The complaint alleges:

the intentional and malicious exposure by senior officials of the federal government of one… human source at the CIA, Valerie Plame Wilson, whose job it was to gather intelligence to make the nation safer, and who risked her life for her country…. Those officials sought to punish Mr. Wilson for his public statements regarding assertions by the President of the United States in the 2003 State of the Union address that he used to justify war against Iraq. As their chief method of punishment, the White House officials destroyed Mrs. Wilson’s cover by revealing her classified employment with the CIA to reporters….

The detailed complaint is an interesting read. A copy may be found here.

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