Originally posted by Nash
Exactly WHAT are you trying to tell me that the courts haven't already heard and ruled on as being bs?
Exactly how many times are you going to ask me the same stupid question and expect a different answer?
There is NO CRIMINAL TRIAL with anyone charged with revealing Plame's "covert" identity. The CRIMINAL trial is about obstruction of justice.
The REASON no one has been charged with revealing her "covert" identity is that the grand jury wouldn't indict, and the prosecutor knew he couldn't make it stick. Why? Because nearly everyone on the planet knows Plame was a desk jocckey at spy central in 2003, and not a covert super spook.
The CIVIL trial has not begun. The suit has been filed. Anyone can file a suit about anything. So what? Hell, the state of California couldn't convict OJ, but the family sued him. Do you have ANY idea how low the threshold for a civil action is? Still the suit has been filed. I have seen nothing about a hearing on whether the case will even hold up to a civil proceeding. It only got filed because they had to beat the statute of limitations. So they filed, if they had this killer air tight case, they'd have gone to trial a year ago. Or at least filed by then. They filed so that just in case they DO eventaully came up with a case, provided it doesn't get thrown out before then, they can go to trial. It's an election year, and they want political hay, and if they can't get that, they want money, and if they can't get that, they want noteriety.
You keep screaming "the courts accepted it, the courts accepted it". Well, look. The prosecutor has not charged anyone with anything but lying to him and the grand jury. The grand jury has not indicted any one for any thing but lying to them. NO ONE has been charged with or indicted for revealing the identity of the former covert agent V Plame. Mostly because she was compromised 8 years before and even the CIA admitted that. That fact and the fact that no one in charged or indicted means the charges won't stick.
See, you asked the same question, and I gave the same answer. And still, despite your constant pronouncement that she was a covert agent and she had her cover blown in 2003, everyone else, including the special prosecutor AND the special grand jury , knows she was so far from actually being a covert agent that the charges would never stick.
And guess what? Those facts won't change. Not if you ask again, not if you ask a thousand more times. And not if you phrase it ten different ways. And you can link to Find Law a dozen more times as well.
One more thing. If revealing their identity put them in so much danger, why did they appear in Vanity Fair? Why do their endangered kids tell people their mommy is a spy? They seem terribly concerned about it don't they? That's why half of D.C.'s social circle knew them as Joe Wilson and his wie Valerie Plame, who used to be a "spy" in the nineties.