Posted on 07/18/2006 7:54:43 AM PDT by SmithL
FORMER CIA operative Valerie Plame is the new Paula Jones -- if with national security credentials and Washington Beltway savoir-faire. Both women filed iffy lawsuits that seemed more designed to discredit a president than to prevail in a court of law.
Jones never could prove that then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton hurt her career as a state worker after he allegedly sexually harassed her. Hence, there were no economic damages, as Judge Susan Webber Wright noted when she ruled against Jones.
The suit filed last week by Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, against Bush biggies -- Veep Dick Cheney, Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby and Bush guru Karl Rove -- is equally nonsensical. As CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin put it, "I think this lawsuit ranks somewhere between an actual lawsuit and a publicity stunt."
"She wasn't fired," noted attorney Victoria Toensing, who served in the Reagan administration. "She worked for two and a half years (at the CIA) after the revelation. Nobody fired her. She's got a book deal she would not have had."
And, I'll add, Plame's deal to write her memoirs for Simon & Schuster -- after a $2.5 million deal with Crown Publishing fell through -- is not stopping the Wilsons from making online solicitations to bankroll "counseling them for their potential witness testimony" in Libby's trial and/or their dubious lawsuit. They need counseling to testify?
At least Plame emerges with a deal to write her memoirs, whereas Jones' contribution to publishing entailed posing for Penthouse -- an odd choice for a woman who claimed to be suing Clinton to restore her reputation. Then again, Plame's photo spread in Vanity Fair didn't quite fit with her alleged desire to stay below the radar while she worked at the CIA.
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P Jones was sexually assaulted. What does Val say was done unto her?
she married
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And then it would remain to be seen whether the left would squeal about it, after they insisted that Clinton was within his rights to do the same.
Gads, do we need to go around and around with what an out-of-court settlement actually means?
It is all such a scam. That has been proven. Some people will do anything for fame and money.
It's a good shorthand equivalence for moderate-to-liberal readers, who were taught by the MSM to think Jones had no case and can easily mentally equate Valerie Plame's lawsuit to Jones's, despite the MSM's sudden shift in tactics in an effort to blow it up into the Trial of the Century. A good tactical article for the conservative cause, regardless of the merits of the respective cases.
" Jones was sexually assaulted. What does Val say was done unto her?"
Well she presumably has had to have sexual relations with Joe Wilson. That's almost as bad.
She looks more like Sharon Stone...
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Hey, I think I saw her in an adult film!!! :-)
(CIA training film?)
Paula Jones fights off a rapist and Valerie Plame is going for her fifteen minutes of fame. Yeah, that's about equal in the eyes of the left. Typical!
B.S... Paula Jones REALLY was a victim....Plame/Wilson are self serving and treasonous.
Val needs to get a clue.
Maybe we should file suit against her for threatening our security.
How many dates did it take for her to reveal to Joe that she was super-secret? Two?
How many other pigs are there?
"If we accept this analogy, it remains to be seen whether President Bush commits any impeachable offenses..."
The analogy ends here. Paula sued the President; Valerie is not suing the President. End of analogy.
Paula Jones' case was a political case. She waited years to file it, and would not have filed it at all had it not been for Klayman, et al, who wanted to use her as a vehicle to embarrass Clinton.
Debra Saunders is a solid conservative writer, and her analogy of Plame-to-Jones is apt.
She's a Secret Agent Man!
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