Wilson/Plame Lawsuit Will Include Armitage
It’s a smart move, really, because to leave him off made the case hopelessly partisan and hypocritical:
Lawyers for former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, tell NBC they plan to file court papers Wednesday in their civil suit to include former State Department top official Richard Armitage as an additional defendant.
It took three years for Armitage to publicly admit, last week, that he was the first to leak the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson to reporters.
Melanie Sloan, an attorney for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, who are representing the Wilson’s, tells NBC that is was not okay for Armitage to leak Plame’s name to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and columnist Bob Novak.
Now it’s just hopeless and partisan…
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