If she does expand the suit and add me to the list, I'll be sure to update things here so everyone can help contribute to my legal defense fund

Fame is a narcotic.  NOw that it has been proven in everything except a court of law that there was no crime, the fame is fleeting. The suit is to keep her name in the public eye.  She is addicted.

Time for the Methadone program for her and her publicist husband.

Because her husband contradicted the White House her career was ended out of sheer vindictiveness. She didn't want notoriety, she just wanted to continue to do her job.

I hope you understand that her husband was shown to be a fraud. We have documented that with Senate reports that showed his "conclusions" were basically bs.

So if there was no wrong doing why was Scooter Libby indicted? If there was no validity to Joe Wilson's findings in Africa why did George Tenet, former head of the CIA, say that Bush should not have included that info in his state of the union speech?

Two things, Locamama:

Libby's indictment accuses him only of lying to a grand jury under oath. That has yet to be proven, of course - the legal standard for obtaining an indictment is far lower than the standard required for conviction. Nothing in the indictment relates in any way to having unlawfully disclosed the name of any CIA agent, let alone Plame.

Tenet in fact personally & specifically vetted those "16 words" - he later said he wished he hadn't, but not for the reason you presume. Wilson's "findings" were never in dispute; they were duly considered & analyzed by the CIA. The majority opinion was that his findings did not contradict the suspicion that Saddam was fishing for yellowcake, and in fact tended to support that suspicion (as judged by the Senate committee which investigated his report after the fact). Wilson's "claims" in the NYT article, as opposed to his actual "findings," were the bone of contention, since they were at odds with the truth of the matter. There was also the matter of his disclosing information from a classified report that he had no authority to disclose (the question of why he wasn't required to sign an NDA for that report is still unanswered).

One other observation. Your comments and questions confirm for me the power of the mainstream media, driven by their blinding hatred of all things Bush, to sabotage the truth through innuendo & repetition, encouraging otherwise intelligent & thoughtful folks to arrive at conclusions quite unsupported by facts.

The punchline of the whole stupid non story is that, in the end, Novak got the confirmation that Valarie Plamme worked for the CIA, by Calling the CIA and asking! There was nothing "secret" or "covert" about her employment at the CIA, it was information readily available with a simple phone call!

The real story here is the lies that Joe Wilson told, and how his wife got a Kerry Campaign Employee on the trip to Niger. So far, the only liars in this case are Valarie and Joe themselves. Oh and maybe Fitzgerald for perpetuating an investigation for years after he knew there wasn't a case.

As for leaving you out of the lawsuit... apparently you should have been included, since the suit is against people who did nothing wrong.

Okay here is a link of the actual indictment against Scooter Libby. I don't think I'm the one who has the facts wrong in this case. I haven't seen one source linked to back up everyone's assertations about this issue.

The long preamble in the indictment setting up the circumstances in which Fitzgerald alleges Libby perjured himself is all about what he knew of Plame and when (anyone hear the echo of Howard Baker?), but there is absolutely no evidence in that indictment which even hints at, much less lends credence to, the allegation that the administration conducted an orchestrated smear campaign against Wilson, the principle weapon of which was the unlawful disclosure of his wife's name and role in the CIA.

If there had been any evidence of that, someone would have been indicted for it. Noone here has to prove something didn't happen. The burden of proof is on those alleging that a crime was committed or that a smear campaign was conducted and so far that burden has not been met, not by Fitzgerald or anyone else.

Also I notice that though everyone keeps disputing the facts in the Plame Affair not one person has offered a link backing up their perception of the issue.

With due respect, Locamama, and once more with feeling, innocence does not require proof, only guilt.

You already have the indictment, which should be source enough, but you want links, we got links:

Senate Committee Report Link

Butler Report (UK) Link

So if there was no wrong doing why was Scooter Libby indicted?

if there was no evildoing, why did not novak, rove & libby simply come forward to admit and explain everything that's since come to light?

why did the whitehouse so steadfastly deny any involvement?