Snakes On A Plame

Since the federal gubmint is not only taking its sweet fucking time but has already let Rove off the hook, the Wilsons are fighting back.

Former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, former CIA officer Valerie Plame, said yesterday that Vice President Cheney, presidential adviser Karl Rove and other administration officials knowingly lied and abused their power to get revenge against the couple for criticizing President Bush's rationale for going to war in Iraq.

Plame's identity as a classified CIA officer was allegedly leaked to the media by top Bush administration officials. She and her husband filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court accusing Cheney, Rove, former top Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and other unnamed government officials of violating Plame's and Wilson's constitutional rights, invading their privacy, endangering their children and ruining their careers.

It's despicable what these people will stoop to just for sheer political payback, and it's unconscionable that most of them will not be held accountable. At the very least, embarrassing Cheney by forcing him to depose at a lawsuit, à la Clenis at the Paula Jones suit, will turn the screws on these humps ever so slightly.

I mean, the damage is already done, and for all intents and purposes, they (except, perhaps, for Scooter "Bottom Bunk" Libby) got away with it, in the sense that Diebold gave them Ohio before the gory details of their mal-fee-ance starting coming out. And since holding power is all these fuckers really care about, they already won. But at least maybe there'll be some monetary justice, which might hurt the Cheneyites' wallets until their scummy "donors" cough up more pelf to spread.