It appears that Dick Cheney and Karl Rove may be forced to testify in the civil suit filed by former CIA operative Valeria Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson (see here). The irony is two-fold: first,the legal precedent Plame’s lawyer is relying on to try to force Cheney and Rove to testify stems, in part, from the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against Bill Clinton; second, one of the lawyers Cheney has selected to help him with the case is none other than Emmet T. Flood of Williams & Connolly (see here)–a former member of the Clinton impeachment team. Apparently Mr. Flood has gone from defending a man who lied about a blow job to defending a man who is an evil blow hard. How fitting.
*Cross-posted at truth to power
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