THREE STRIKES
 

and you're out, with little fanfare from the media of course which seems odd given the rabid pursuit of this during the Bush years, hell there were congressional hearings and everything but no interest in the ultimate conclusion...thrown out of court 3 times...hope the media is as interested in the highly questionable firing of an Inspector General....nahhhhhh

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will not give further consideration to a lawsuit brought by a fired CIA agent and her husband against high ranking Bush administration officials, including former Vice President #^&#^&#^&#^& Cheney.

The decision is a victory for Cheney and his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. They and nine unnamed co-defendants were sued by Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband Joseph after her CIA cover was leaked to reporters.

The "Plame Affair" was a major Washington scandal during the Bush administration's second term. A federal prosecutor brought in to examine the case never brought criminal charges for the outingREALLY???, but his investigation led to Libby's conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice. President Bush commuted Libby's two and a half prison sentence.

The Wilsons said their case was about "abuse of power at the highest level of American government." apparently not

They claim the senior Bush administration officials orchestrated a campaign to leak Plame's name to reporters in an effort to compromise her status as a covert CIA agent. This was supposedly done as retribution for a 2003 New York Times column her husband authored about Iraq's nuclear ambitions and that country's relations with Niger.

The Wilsons' claimed that Plame's blown cover made them a target for people with hostile views against the United States. They also contend the circumstance of her outing resulted in the suffering of "gross invasions of privacy."

The couple sued seeking unspecified financial damages but their lawsuit was dismissed by a federal trial court judge. That decision that was upheld last year by an appellate court

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