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Appeals court denies Plame's attempt to sue US officials

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/App...enies_Plames_attempt_to_0812.html

Excerpt:

A federal appeals court said Tuesday it would not resurrect a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against members of the Bush administration.

Plame accused Vice President broccoli Cheney and several former high-ranking administration officials of revealing her identity to reporters in 2003. She and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, say that violated their constitutional rights.
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Melanie Sloan, Plame's attorney at the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said Plame was considering an appeal.

"It is simply unacceptable for top government officials to be unaccountable for such a gross abuse of their power," Sloan said.

(Ah, but the appeal would go to the Supreme Court, which only hears a tiny fraction of the cases sent to it, and which is the corrupt, partisan, unelected, unaccountable, and undemocratic body that installed the Bush administration in the first place. --Mark)