And then the TPMMucker raker bit, too…??

All we need is a presser from Fitz to make the trifecta!!

BLOG POWER

The Wilsons!

Sweeeeet!

and I did say, Fitz, didn’t I?

Yeah baby! Go Joe & Val!!

hubba hubba Valerie ! you go, girl !

Libby, Cheney and Rove, huh? Why not Novak?

“This could be the start of something big!”

Any speculation yet as to who’s going to be named in the lawsuit?

Please God let them go after Cheney.

I don’t dare get my hopes up for Bush to be named…

Right on Joe, go slay some Orcs!

Some sobering thoughts…

*AT LEAST IN VIETNAM, BUSH HAD AN EXIT STRATEGY

*BLIND FAITH IN BAD LEADERSHIP IS NOT PATRIOTISM

*IF YOU’RE NOT OUTRAGED, YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION

*IF YOU SUPPORTED BUSH, A YELLOW RIBBON WON’T MAKE UP FOR IT

*POVERTY, HEALTHCARE & HOMELESSNESS ARE MORAL ISSUES

*OF COURSE IT HURTS. YOU’RE GETTING SCREWED BY AN ELEPHANT

*BUSH LIED, AND YOU KNOW IT

*RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM: A THREAT ABROAD, A THREAT AT HOME

*GOD BLESS EVERYONE (No exceptions)

*BUSH SPENT YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY ON HIS WAR

*PRO AMERICA, ANTI BUSH

*WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB?

*IF YOU SUPPORT BUSH’S WAR, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE? SHUT UP AND SHIP
OUT

*FEEL SAFER NOW?

*I’D RATHER HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO SCREWED HIS INTERN THAN ONE WHO
SCREWED HIS COUNTRY

*JESUS WAS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST - THAT IS A LIBERAL

*MY VALUES? FREE SPEECH. EQUALITY. LIBERTY. EDUCATION. TOLERANCE

*IS IT 2008 YET?

*DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM — Thomas Jefferson

DON’T BLAME ME. I VOTED AGAINST BUSH — TWICE!

*ANNOY A CONSERVATIVE; THINK FOR YOURSELF

*VISUALIZE IMPEACHMENT

*HEY BUSH! WHERE’S BIN LADEN?

*CORPORATE MEDIA = MASS MIND CONTROL

*STOP MAD COWBOY DISEASE

*GEORGE W. BUSH: MAKING TERRORISTS FASTER THAN HE CAN KILL THEM

*KEEP YOUR THEOCRACY OFF MY DEMOCRACY

*DEMOCRATS ARE SEXY. WHOEVER HEARD OF A GOOD PIECE OF ELEPHANT?

*ASPIRING CANADIAN

*CORPORATE MEDIA: WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION

*DON’T CONFUSE DYING FOR OIL WITH FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM

*STEM CELL RESEARCH IS PRO LIFE

*HATE, GREED, IGNORANCE: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

*HONOR OUR TROOPS - DEMAND THE TRUTH

*REBUILD IRAQ? WHY NOT SPEND 87 BILLION ON AMERICA?

*FACT: BUSH OIL
1999 - $19 BARREL
2006 - $70 BARREL

*THE LAST TIME RELIGION CONTROLLED POLITICS, PEOPLE GOT BURNED AT
THE STAKE

*I’LL GIVE UP MY CHOICE WHEN JOHN ROBERTS GETS PREGNANT

*SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - IMPEACH BUSH

*HOW ON EARTH CAN 59,411,287 PEOPLE BE SO DUMB?

OK, next time I’ll read the link before posting…

This will be rather fun to watch. And Bush can’t pardon anyone on this one, either!

But I bet the words “secret”, “confidential”, and “cannot be disclosed” will come up a lot, tho.

dead last and everyone — please, all caps is really difficult to read and its considered to be shouting online. Please don’t shout for an entire long post in the comments. Thanks.

There is a God!

Jack

the stated targets are Libby, Rove and CHENEY

SteveNS at 13 — wasn’t your fault — part of my post got eaten. I had originally pasted in the top portion of the press release on the reason for the news conference, but for some reason, it disappeared when I initially posted. Think we must have had some sort of hiccup or something. Anyway, I’ve reposted. Sorry for any confusion, gang.

This will get NO news coverage because I have a hunch that there will be BIG news about a FOILED terror plot that was MERE SECONDS from actually happening. Until we find out it was overhyped bullshit 2-3 days later.

Just a guess.

tomorrow morning, woohoo!

CRANKY TROLL

Thank God for a legal system that allows for redress, especially given the appalling lack of accountability so far.

Since I can only imagine the roadblocks to discovery given the pending trial of Irving, is filing now a likely a statute of limitations decision?

Hmm… Christy, does this mean the rumour that Fitzgerald may be stalling to run out the statute of limitations clock on civil suits has legs? Or that the rumour at least raised suspicions on the Wilsons’ part?

Wasn’t the statute of limitations for a suit up July 14? Did they wait until the last day on purpose?

And based on angie’s earlier comments, it may also coincide with a decision to begin US air strikes against Lebanon.

What a god-awful mess.

So does this mean that Fitzgerald is done and kaput with the case, and he’s going to go back to flipping truck drivers in Chicago? Or can he still nail them for something else?

I’m sure the Wilsons coordinated this with Fitz, so there’s no “overlap” in who can charge whom with what — is that a good word to use.. Oh I am so clueless about law.

I’m REALLY curious as to why they let Novak off the hook. He IS the one who, in the end, published the information on Plame’s identity.

OT and sorry, but I gotta vent:

Just cruising the cable dial looking for Lebanon updates and came upon Senslessbrenner blathering about ENGLISH OLNY, fer gawds sakes. The world is on fire and the ME is about to explode but….words fail me.

Damn, that Plame woman is beautiful!

oxide at 26 — no, the Wilsons will not have “coordinated” anything with Fitzgerald. Civil suits and criminal suits have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, other than for discovery purposes. And you can have both an ongoing civil matter and an ongoing criminal matter (in fact, you often do). So, no, it does not mean anything other than, now that Rove has been told he likely will not be charged, that the Wilsons felt that it was time to consider their civil legal options.

damn! i didn’t scoop you this time, christy hardin smith!

but, terribly off=topic (and pardon our blogwhoring), but skippy is celebrating our 4th blogiversary, during which we thank jane and fdl for their support!

Regarding the photo at the top:

Eat your heart out, Ann Coulter. That’s what a blonde woman with a long neck is supposed to look like: beautiful and graceful.

What a great picture.

lotus, people made the same observation about Nixon and Agnew … and about George H.W. Bush and Quayle

Deny My Freedom at dKos has a diary up with the complaint:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/13/152357/107

Skippy! Congratulations!!! And happiest of anniversaries!

I just hope something comes out of it. So far everything has ended in a whimper when clearly a law was broken. This administration is evil and has no respect for laws of our country.

andrew — you got it. This week, when the Senate held hearings on what to do about Hamdan, the stories about the Senate hearing were squashed by the Bush announcement re willingness to apply Geneva Conventions to the detainees. That news came out the morning of 11th, but the actual memo from the DoD counsel was issued on the 7th. They just held off making it public ’till it could be useful in capturing the front page headlines, and it did, in both WaPo and NYT. The Senate hearing story was then buried in the same story, inside pages.

We should have a contest on what astonishing story will occur between now and tomorrow evening. My guess is that Bush will make some warlike rhetorical statement wrtIsrael, such as warning Syria and Iran to stop interfering via Hezbolah/Hamas, or we’ll . . . uh . . . and that will be the lead story in NYT tomorrow a.m. and all day on CNN. They also need a distraction from the growning number of reports that Iraq may be nearing collapse.

I am relieved that the Wilsons will not let this go. I hold them in my thoughts for their courage, because they will need it.

They know that this case is not just about them and the damage that they have suffered. It is for all of us, in the sense that we need CIA agents working on mass destruction, who are not afraid that they will be suddenly outed, who can get intelligence from other countries because our allies are not afraid we will expose their secrets. We need our government to operate with integrity, to protect all of us.

I think we need to stand behind them, to call in to challenge the talk radio lies that will be coming shortly. We need to write letters to congress critters who criticize them on C-SPAN, and to the editorial pages. We need to stand up for them and be seen to do so, so that the attacks on them are challenged for the craven partisan deception that they represent.

Glenn Greenwald has been writing lately about the tactics in vogue among the wingnuts. Get ready.

OT– CNN: Vote on the table re Gaza and US vetos– a few abstentions and 10 in favor.

There you go.

Bolton for Rice and Bush is vetoing right now a resolution in the Security Council about Israeli aggression … again. And then they wonder why the world doesnt love us ?

Is the whole Left gathering here today? Poor ol’ server’s rilly having a fit.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Good for Amb. Wilson and Valerie Wilson……After they have been called liars and trashed by Rover et al and with Darth sending out Mary McCheney to do dirty work…..I hope that they really get those trolls good……
If you are reading this Amb. Wilson….anything…I mean ANYTHING I can do to help you…I will even be a coffee gopher…just let me know!

OT

New fox News poll in:

[blockquote]The president’s approval rating dropped to 36 percent, down from 41 percent approval two weeks ago and 40 percent in mid-June. Bush lost ground this week among some key constituent groups, such as Republicans, whites and men. Overall, 53 percent of Americans say they disapprove.[/blockquote]

lotus — Is the whole Left gathering here today?

No. I know of at least two others who haven’t commented.

CNN covering the Wilson suit now with pix of Dead eye and his fish eye wife.

Cathy 24

Yeah, that’s what I understand. The three year statute of limitations runs out Friday. Just under the wire.

And your little dog too — boy are you right. What a million watt smile on that woman! And Joe looks pretty proud to be by her side, but then, wouldn’t anybody?

Lotus #40
Of course — came here as soon as I heard the news on Kos!

Crap. My first attempt at a blockquote and I flunked. :(

And the civil suit has been filed, and names Libby, Rove, Cheney and John Does 1 through 10.

Hmm, how many members are in the WHIG?

I think they will cover it…You can count on Olbermann and David Shuster to give ACCURATE accounts…as for tweety…he will have all his ReTHUG cocktail weenie friends on to be “fair and imbalanced”.

Use the keys.

sorry I disappeared there, my modem blinked out. had to reboot everything.

I have to agree wit Susan, they wurlitzer is going to go into high gear on Joe and Valerie Wilson. We need to be ready to do pushback.

ON anoter topic:

Dog in very active labor. Puppies any minute now. (I’m at the office and missing all the excitement)

Getcher threads mixed up, *ilson 32?

cathy#48…we have to find the WHIG list, I am sure Christy and Jane have it….it would be interesting to know how many.

Saw it as “this just in” on CNN - they interrupted their coverage of the middle east for it!

lol! Little shits! They showed up on preview and not the post The pointer keys at the bottom.

This. Is. Sweet.

Hit the conscienceless fuckers were it hurts them most, the wallet attached to their treasonous asses.

Also love how this is not a Friday news dump.

I think that w ought to stay in Germany and try out all the bierhauses with his 2 hausfraus– perhaps he’s one of the John D’ohs.

Wasn’t it a civil suit, by Paula Jones, that got Clinton into so much trouble? What are the chances that one of the defendents might fudge the truth a little bit in a deposition, say?

A question for Christy.
Any chance that John Does 1-10 could be the WHIG group and or people like Novak?
As I said last thread, Good on the Wilson family.

cathy — John Does 1 thru 10!!! That must look like the most serious threat ever made against this administration. [Please, include at least one Jane Doe!]

Littledog -

You almost had it! Try this: {blockquote}text{/blockquote} - but substitute left and right arrows for parens and you’re there!

I hope they shine a billion candle watt light on these vampires.Any estimate on damages sought ?

Moom over, ever’body, make room for all our company!

Cathy, #48
I was typing and missed your comment on the WHIG group. Sorry, did not copy you.

and your little dog too …

Blockquotes

HOLY mother of all things sacred and true, this is the absofreakin’lutely best news I’ve heard in a very, very long time! All I can say is, wooooohooooooo, yesssssssss.

They have bided their time and patiently waited for things to unfold, and they have been maliciously and willfully wronged. God, I hope they prevail. I know this will be a long and nasty road for them, but I send them my best wishes for triumph over these horrific brutes, and I know in my heart that some sort of justice must come from this.

For us non-lawyer types, what does it mean to name John Doe 1 through 10? Are these specific people who remain unnamed, or just some random number based on guessing? Why wouldn’t the targets be named in a civil case?

I hope one of the John Doe’s is Mary Matalin McCheney….she is just trash and scuzz!

Yes, puppethead, they ARE specific unnamed people (why unnamed now, we’ll hafta hide&watch for).

john in sacto 65- you are so kind with your links. thanks, I needed that, too.

From the DKos link provided above-
…Trust was established with the Wilsons’ approval and provides that should the suit result in a payment to the Wilsons in excess of their legal costs, they will reimburse the Trust for all legal costs paid by the Trust. That money will then be distributed by the trustees to a charitable organization(s) that works to protect the rights of government whistleblowers. Contributions to the Joseph and Valerie Wilson Legal Support Trust can be given at www.wilsonsupport.org or sent to P.O. Box 40918, Washington, D.C. 20016-0918.

Let the games begin….

Remember …Amb Wilson took it to Saddam…WITHOUT FEAR….he will not blink when it comes to trash cowards like Miss Piggy Rover and Darth Cheney…it will be tough but Amb Wilson is a hero and so is Valerie Wilson…look at what she did for OUR country and how those cowards ruined her livelihood, no less are traitors to our country!

Christy, do you know anything about their counsel, Christopher Wolf?

I sure would like to know how the hell they think they’re gonna get all the Americans outta Lebanon now.

angie @ 44 says:
“CNN covering the Wilson suit now with pix of Dead eye and his fish eye wife.”

~~~

You owe me the mouthful of Chardonnay I just spit on my iMac’s screen.

Jenny 61

Thanks.

I’m going to try it now.

cathy says: “And the civil suit has been filed, and names Libby, Rove, Cheney and John Does 1 through 10.

Hmm, how many members are in the WHIG?” “

July 13th, 2006 at 12:37 pm

Here’s the list of WHIG members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHIG

The “breaking news” notifications are coming into my email fast & furious now. (OK, “quickly and furiously” for you grammar nerds…)

Lookit little dog go!

WooHoo!

It worked!

Thanks.

How soon before Coppolino et al file to have the suit dismissed for state secrets reasons? *g*

Game on, Go VALERIE!

The newsbits about GITMO hearings, NSA info etc. are a mess - things are not coordinated at the WH yet, for sure.

Milbanks piece was actually pretty good on the hearing I thought. Graham has done back flips to bail these idiots out and CYA for the military. If he pulls an Arlene and does all tough talk but lets them follow through with the assinine positions they are taking, he’ll have let the military down IMO. In other reports, McCain and Warner seem “puzzled” bec the word they had from the WH is that UCMJ hearing were thumbs up from the WH.

The signals are crossing and zinging.

Last lawyer left standing, turn out the lights.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00953.html

Hopefully Rove And Novak are among the John Doe’s.

Morris Sheppard at 12:41 pm :

IANAL but I was truly outraged that the SC said it was ok for Paula Jones to sue a sitting president for something he did before becoming such a thing. Am I wrong? Has it happened before?

I’m not sure how I feel about this. it feels like good news, but I just don’t like it. It seems like a really slippery slope. Please, someone, convince me otherwise.

So what will Bush and Co. do to keep this out of the Sunday morning puppet shows?

Wooot! I must say, I’m very sick of Novak and other Republicans recycling talking points that were discredited over a year ago.

We’ll see how far this goes.

Whoops, Missed it.

Members
The members of the White House Iraq Group are:

Karl Rove
Karen Hughes
Mary Matalin
Andrew Card
James R. Wilkinson
Nicholas E. Calio
Condoleezza Rice
Stephen Hadley
I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby

I have to bone up on my Bivens case law, but there are all sorts of delicious motions to come, including why Dick, Scooter and Turdblossom are not entitled to qualified immunity.

Am doing a cursory read of complaint and keeping an eye on my e-mail gang…

Meta 74
I remeber reading that he is a neighbor of theirs, and had no irea what Valerie did until this blew up.

Toobin on CNN opining.

Dru at 71 already listed a site that goes to the Wilson trust fund. Although donations start at 50, remember you can give as much or as little as possible. Personally it might be the best 50 I ever contributed. You go Joe….

O.k. a bit of myopia here. The guessing game has officially begun? Yes? Miller? Novak? Russert? My, The fun HAS just begun.

Jon in Sacremento

Thanks!

Big Time!

FYI-
NPR just broke in to Fresh Air to make this announcement, so I think there will be coverage by other media, my dears. I almost jumped out of bed from my nap.

Oh, boy. *ilson, have you registered www.thankyouvaleriewilson.com yet?

moeman @ 77– sorry ;) I am glad I made somebody laugh today.

Toobin calling the lawsuit a long shot… typical.

Susan in Iowa @ 37

I admire their courage as well. The full power of the right wing noise machine will be after them 24/7. The Pre$$titutes will give their usual 10 to 1 Conservative to Progressive coverage should this ever come to trial.

Remember when Sidney Blumenthal tried to sue that a–hole Drudge for publishing a BS post that Blumenthal beat his wife. Drudge was backed up with an unlimited defense fund from the “four sisters”, and Mr. Blumenthal ultimately had to pay Drudge $2500.

http://archive.salon.com/polit.....5/02/blue/

You can damn well bet that Rove ET alls strategy will be similar, to file as many delay motions as possible to bleed the Wilson’s dry and force them to drop the suit or face bankruptcy.

Toobin: “extreme long shot, this lawsuit — pub. offls have immunity, etc., etc.”

Faster typer, please take over.

Jeff Toobin on CNN says that Plames “have a long shot at best.” “Public officials have almost total immunity for what they do in office.”

Is he right, or should he stick to O.J.?

Does this mean that when the dust settles, the Kelp Kandy Karnival will reopen for the summer again, with free bourbon and jumbo ‘dolphin dogs’ for the kiddies?

Be still my beating liver

;>)

WHIG membersip:

George W. Bush’s former chief of staff Andrew Card
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
Rice’s former deputy Stephen Hadley
Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby
Legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio
AND
Communication strategists
Mary Matalin
Karen Hughes
James R. Wilkinson, Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications

Lawyers:

Is “John Doe” a gender-specific designation? Would one name “Jane Doe” in this circumstance, should there be a female “John Doe?”

IOW, are Condi, Karen, and Mary off this hook, or on it?

Could ‘I’m fuckin right!’ Judy be included?

Cindy, do you know if the Wilsons have a legal fund I can donate to, or if they would accept donations?

Sigh…my neighbor cindy just left. CHRISTY, I’m sorry.

Clinton v. Jones decision, for some relevance. To my untrained eye it looks like there is no immunity from civil suit while sitting in office. Oops. Nice blowback from the Clinton hunts, eh?

Lindy look at 71

just a political dispute… tooberboy.

LindyH– check 71 and 93 above.

it might be safer just to register www.thankyouvalerie-.com , dont you think? the drawback is setting up a webserver and software to host it …

Lotus 80

Your post took momentarily too me back to about age 8 on the high-dive board at Camp Longhorn! :)

Thanks!

The tolling of the statute of limitations must have been understood by the attorneys for the likely defendants in the civil case.

Folks have been wondering why Novak came “out” with his story this week, but Rove et al would have known that he/they were potential defendants. Just as Rove and his counsel made a last ditch gesture at Fitz to avoid Rove being indicted, I wonder if the Novak story was a last ditch effort by Rove/Novak or others to avoid being named defendants? Time to take another look at the Novak story.

Let’s hope Amd Wilson and his wife can recover finacially especially for her. They have called her all kind of names and even suggested she was basically a secretary at the agency. I don’t really care about the political impact of the lawsuit just hoping the wilsons can reclaim what was theirs.

and your little dog…

whoo hoo! :)

(((((little dog))))))

69 lotus says:

July 13th, 2006 at 12:46 pm

Yes, puppethead, they ARE specific unnamed people (why unnamed now, we’ll hafta hide&watch for).

Lotus the reason they are unamed now, is to get under the statute of limitations.

The Wilsons don’t havve enough info to withstand a rule 12 Motion to dismiss the complaint, with regards to the others. if they named the others and then lost the motion to dismiss (even w/o prejudice, which normally means you can rebring your suit when you get enough info) they would be screwed because the statute of limitations would have run out.

I do a lot of federal civil rights cases. I haven’t read past the 3rd page yet (and already am slavering for a Christy deconstruction of the complaint) but was surprised they seem to only be bringing a biven cliam alone.

Really interesting was starting the complaint with that quote from Bush the First. THAT IS VERY UNUSUAL. That’s how you start a brief or oral argument not how you start a pleading.

I think a whole lot o’ thought went inot this document and that it may hold strategic angles, not normally found in docs of this kind.—Cheeeky of me to say that before I have read it, eh?

I’ll bet one of the John Does is Commander Codpiece — which means the full throw weight of the ‘Murkan Noo-Klee-Ar arsenal will be launched at Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria — and Russia and China, just to be on the safe side — about two minutes after the Wilson’s press conference begins.

Not that there is any connection, mind you . . .

Jeff Toobin on CNN says that Plames “have a long shot at best.” “Public officials have almost total immunity for what they do in office.”

Is he right, or should he stick to O.J.?

Immunity for elected officials, notwithstanding Jones v. Clinton, for actions while in office are quite high. The case against Cheney will be quite tough.

Libby & Rove on the other hand, will be easier they would have qualified immunity so a showing of maliciousness would keep them in the case.

Happy

Happy

Joy

Joy.

and I love the fact that that beautiful pic of Val and joe has the FDL colors in the background. How very aesthetically pleasing.

Lots of smiles today.

Oil closed at $76.76/bl today — NEEDLESS to add, a new record (only until tomorrow).

Thanks

you know- i dont have a ton of faith that it will amount to any huge monetary gains for the wilsons- but just think of all the horrible publicity for the rethugs, not to mention their outrageous legal bills, all in time for the upcoming elections… YAHOO!

FITZ!

Christopher Wolf ESQ.!

Coming to a zero post soon.

Wilson support website, via TPM:

http://wilsonsupport.org/

Another banner day for George W. Bush:

Dow 10,847.17 Down 166.01 (1.51%)

Heckuva job.

Now if he can just bring on the apocalypse.

-GSD

by the way, I wonder what Mr. Lamont is up to today ?

skippy, you slut! Happy Anniversary!

Doesn’t the immunity apply to acts in their official capacity, as opposed to acts that just happened to take place in their offices? You can’t claim immunity for, say, assaulting someone at your workplace even is it’s the WH. Won’t the fights be over whether outing a CIA agent is some sort of official act?
Mary? LHP?

Good for the Wilsons.

Any chance Addington might be a Doe?