Plame Lawsuit Dismissed in CIA Leak Case

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame lost a lawsuit Thursday that demanded money from Bush administration officials whom she blamed for leaking her agency identity.

Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to disclose her identity in 2003. Plame said that violated her privacy rights and was illegal retribution for her husband’s criticism of the administration.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and said he would not express an opinion on the constitutional arguments.

this never even got into the salient point that Plame’s “secret status” had been a thing of the past, and at the time of her so-called “outing”, she was a desk analyst, no longer subject to the legal protections afforded to secret field agents.

This whole deal is really much ado about nothing, except an attempt to throw so much mud at the Bush administration that SOMETHING might stick – which didn’t happen except for the side-splatter that hit Scooter Libby.