Plame Attorney to Use Paula Jones Precedent to Force Cheney to Testify

[kpete]

In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling that neither Clinton “or any other official has an immunity that extends beyond the scope of any action taken in an official capacity.”

Plame Attorney to Use Paula Jones Precedent to Force Cheney to Testify
Posted by Jon Ponder | Aug. 16, 2006, 11:12 am

The biggest travesty wrought by the Supreme Court in the 1990s was its unanimous decision that Paula Jones could sue Pres. Clinton while he was in office. (This was followed by their biggest travesty perhaps ever but certainly of the millenial decade, in December 2000, when they voted along party lines to give George W. Bush the presidency over Al Gore.)

But here is how the worm might turn:

In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling that neither Clinton “or any other official has an immunity that extends beyond the scope of any action taken in an official capacity.”A lawyer plans to use a legal precedent that allowed President Bill Clinton to be sued while in office to force Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove to testify in a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband.

California attorney Joseph Cotchett said he will ask a federal court to order Cheney, his ex-chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Rove to testify in depositions about their role in disclosing her classified status.

The civil lawsuit accuses them and others of conspiring to publicly identify Plame as a CIA agent to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for writing in an op-ed piece that the Bush administration twisted intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Cotchett, who took over as trial counsel in Plame’s case on Tuesday, said legal precedent for whether Cheney and the others could claim legal immunity in the case comes, in part, from Paula Jones’ sexual harassment case against Clinton.

more at:
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/08/16/plame-attorney-to-use-paula-jones-precedent-to-force-cheney-to-testify/

[texpatriot2004]

1. What a fantastic thing! How absolutely beautiful. Thanks Kpete

for this excellent news.

Karma, karma, karma.

[Skidmore]

2. Karma is a beautiful thing.

[David Zephyr]

36. It is karma.

How wonderful.

[Kber]

37. It's Plame

'cause Karma doesn't have fists

(From "My name is Earl".)

[Horse with no Name]

3. Karma in action

When it comes back your way, it usually knocks you on your ass.

[Pab Sungenis]

33. Like my granddad used to say....

"If you're going to piss in the well, don't complain when it's your turn to drink."

[MoonRiver]

4. ROFL! Sweet irony strikes again!

Deal with it Darth! :rofl:

[mike_c]

5. sweet irony....

:rofl:

[aquart]

6. This has the most awe-inspiring beauty.

Have I mentioned before how short-sighted the Republicans are? Why, yes, I have.

[Chimichurri]

7. Isn't this sweet! I'm not sure my nervous system knows how to handle

all of this good news.:evilgrin:

[MoonRiver]

8. My greatest fear is that I will bust a gut laughing with such joy and hilarity

at it all. Here I go again...:rofl:

[Marnieworld]

9. as well they should use it

Paybacks a bitch huh? It's sooooo still in our memories that I am amazed that they are actually trying this. Are they expecting to get the same justices to contradict themselves? What am I thinking? Scalia and Thomas would. They don't let making sense stop them.

[hwmnbn]

10. First the Military Commissions Act.....

opens these war criminals to legal prosecution worldwide. :woohoo:

And now this!!

:rofl: <---Bill Clinton

It seems like the repugs can't grasp the concept of the "law of unintended consequences."

[madrchsod]

11. ahhhhh payback..isn`t it sweet?

i`d say so....

[AdvancedProgress]

12. How awesome is this...

It's the best news I've heard all day!

:thumbsup:

[texastoast]

13. Sweeeeeet baybay!

Wonder how he's liking THAT!!!!

:rofl:

[librechik]

14. Irony is a beautiful thing sometimes

har de har har

[riderinthestorm]

15. They've just got to have a way to squirm out of this

I just can't believe they are going to actually go testify. I will believe it when I see it but Cheney is just too slippery and evil, and absolutely determined to destroy anyone who gets in his way, how the hell is he going to avoid court?

:scared:

I'm actually afraid for the Wilsons. I really am. I believe they are one of the biggest potential bludgeons against this Admin which means they are really in a lot of jeopardy.

Stay off small planes Val and Joe! (and keep your beautiful children close).

[madmusic]

16. Fascism eats everyone.

Even its own.

[NVMojo]

17. Cheers for the worm and KARMA!!! Wooooohoooooo! What a great cause too!

[annabanana]

18. ... bu-bu-but..THIS is a time of wa-a-a-ar!

. . . there must be some signing statement somewhere covering this. . . (shuffle, shuffle)

[Old and In the Way]

19. Ouch.....ass-bite.....nt

[The Count]

20. Burn!

[Cass]

21. This put a big smile on my face. nt

[GliderGuider]

22. Oh, Snap!

Gotta love it when Karma comes armed with a petard.

[reichstag911]

23. Karma Police...

...arrest this man...

[smoogatz]

24. B-b-b-but that was about the Clenis!!!!1111!!!

You can't do that! It's cheating!!!

[corkhead]

25. Bu bu but 9/11 changed everything

:popcorn:

[robinlynne]

26. karma. karma. karma.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

27. Cheney can always argue that committing treason is an official function

of his job, which would therefore grant him immunity. In fact, he probably sees the outing of a CIA Agent as an appropriate activity within the sphere of his official capacity. Hopefully, the court won't see it that way.

[Joe Chi Minh]

28. Idiot Republicans! All these pathetic distortions and subornings of

Justice to condemn an innocent man... and they've come back to bite them in the bum. One after another.

But sweet poetic justice: now their evil selves are being brought to book on their own "gallows". The party of Haman. It seems Monsieur Allen is not one of a kind at all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. A new equitable maxim for law students to learn:

Karma Will Bite You In The Ass.

[Lugnut]

30. Blam!

Sweet irony.

[GliderGuider]

31. This is too sweet for words.

Between this and the way the MCA opened the door for German charges against Rummy, they're getting quite the lesson in blowback, aren't they?

[Red Right and BLUE]

32. Ah, sweet sweet nectar.

Truthy.

[kestrel91316]

34. Not so fast. Cheney will, of course, claim that discussing Plame

fell under "his official capacity" and so he has immunity.

I think he might have already claimed this, IIRC.

[Mme. Defarge]

35. YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

:applause:

[orleans]

38. so, this is from august. what's up with this now? anyone know? n/t

[Bucky]

39. Read the fine print on the Paula Jones decision folks. It says it only applies when...

the president is a Democrat. Or maybe that's reading between the lines, but the principle still holds.

[dogday]

40. Nice to see what comes around goes around.....

They are now getting what they gave..

[Homer Wells]

41. Every Day and In Every Way

things just keep getting better and better!!

Way to host them on their own petard!



:headbang: :woohoo: :rofl:

[rosesaylavee]

42. Ha Ha

[BelgianMadCow]

43. Old news (16 aug), but welcome anyway. 40th R

[deacon]

44. Hell yeah- the right thing to do- say it loud and clear! n/t

[civildisoBDence]

45. Live by the sewer, die by the sewer. Or something like that.

I have to agree with the SC decision to let the Jones lawsuit go forward...but it THAT suit had merit, how can ANYONE deny that Dick and DUHbya should suffer the same consequences for deceiving us into an unjust, unnecessary, unwinnable war????

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