And the real kicker in the opinion is found here.
"But there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration's handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants' duties as high-level Executive Branch officials."
In other words, any claim made by the perjurious, nepotism-encouraging former CIA employee and her partisan-hack husband will likely be barred by the immunity officials have for acting within the scope of their employment.
In other words, thee is no right to have one's false claims about the government and its policies stand unchallenged by the public officials involved.
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"Plame" thrown out??!! Should anyone have expected anything less? The Plame suit poses the closest, most viable opportunity of getting to the the edge of impeachment. For a judge to allow that case to go forward and (presumably) be vigorously tried without the premise of executive privilege - or scant use of it from its defendents would undoubtably persuade the nation that we were lied into the war in Iraq and some 3700+ Americans have given their lives to support those (Bush and Cheney's) lies.
|| Posted by dmoore2424, July 20, 2007 09:30 AM ||Such intense national focus on a trial such as Plame would bond this nation together to impeach these scoundrels and liars - and the Bush administration nor the Justice Department are not going to even consider allowing that to happen. Congress should already be pursuing impeachment proceedings for the lies and misdemeanors that have ALREADY taken place before the administration's clock runs out and everybody gets off scott free - except in history's assessment 50 to 100 years from now. If ever there was a place for impeachment as written by the authors of our Constitution, this is the case.
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