Valerie Plame Keeping Low-Profile, Suing Vice President

Reports Fox News:

Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said Friday they decided to sue Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove because they engaged in a "whispering campaign" to destroy her career.

The couple said they are also suing because they want media attention again. Oh no, wait, that was just implied...

It's good to see Valerie Plame keeping a low profile, by suing the Vice President of the United States! I don't know who's supposed to be trying to destroy who's career here - the man defending himself from Joe Wilson, or the woman complaining she can't keep a job as a covert spy: to the press!

The story goes on:

The lawsuit accuses Cheney, Libby, Rove and 10 unnamed administration officials or political operatives of putting the Wilsons and their children's lives at risk by exposing Plame, who left the CIA in January and is writing a book about what's happened to her.

Yeah, I can see how the whole families life may have been at risk when it was revealed that Valerie Plame was not an ordinary desk-jokey, but a desk-jockey for the CIA! And the inhumanity of the treatment Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson have received. Personally, I think this reeks of McCarthyism; poor Valerie Plame has been reduced to writing a book she'll no doubt receive millions for. Is there any justice in America?

It will be interesting to see if this lawsuit goes anywhere or, if like the investigation before it, it just wastes a lot of important people's time.