By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity.
A federal judge dismissed Plame’s lawsuit last year, saying there was no basis to bring a case. Plame’s lawyers asked a federal appeals court Friday to send the case back before the judge and force him to consider its merits.
Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, sued Vice President Dick Cheney; his former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby; former White House political adviser Karl Rove and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
Plame’s CIA position was revealed in a syndicated newspaper column in 2003, during a time when her husband was criticizing the march to war in Iraq. Armitage and Rove were the original sources for that story, which Plame believes was retribution for Wilson’s criticism. More…
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From Current:
Remember that “extraordinary rendition” debacle that took place a few months ago? To recap, a few English journalists had clocked that the CIA were leasing private planes to secretly fly illegally captured law abiders to secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Think I’m a conspiracy nut? Go and tell the BBC they are nuts too….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4246089… Anyway on with the show, I have a treat in store for you! It seems that one of the planes logged on this list of “CIA Prison Planes” has been in a little accident - It crash landed in Mexico after running out of Jet fuel en route to the US. The authorities were more than a little surprised when they found four tons, yes you heard me right, four tons of cocaine on board.
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By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush’s fellow Republicans in Congress on Tuesday upheld his veto of a bill to ban the CIA from subjecting enemy detainees to interrogation methods denounced by critics as torture.
A largely party-line vote of 225-188 in the Democratic-led House of Representatives fell short of the needed two-thirds majority to override the president.
Bush maintains that the United States does not torture, but has refused to discuss interrogation techniques, saying that doing so could tip off terrorists.
The CIA has acknowledged using a simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding on three terrorism suspects, including accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but says it stopped using that method in 2003.
Waterboarding has been condemned by many U.S. lawmakers, human rights groups and foreign countries as a form of torture.
In voting to sustain Bush’s veto, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, attacked Democrats for failing to approve a stalled Senate-passed bill that would expand the government’s ability to track foreign targets.
“Rather than holding a vote to give terrorists our (interrogation) playbook, Congress should be voting to strengthen the intelligence community’s ability to spy on them,” Hoekstra said.
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