Thursday, July 19, 2007
Good:
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Cheney and top administration officials over the disclosure of Plame's name and covert status to the media.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said that Cheney and White House aides cannot be held liable for the disclosure of information about Plame in the summer of 2003 while they were trying to rebut criticism of the administration's war efforts levied by her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. The judge said such efforts were certainly part of the officials' scope of normal duties.
"The alleged tortious conduct, namely the disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's status as a covert operative, was incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform," Bates wrote in an opinion released this afternoon...
I have never posted here before, but I tend to really
like the material. For this post though, I think we need
to look at the whole sentence:
>Stateless Palestinians have long been a casus belli among
>Arab terrorists, although removing the injustice done to
>them by Israel's creation in 1948 has also long been in
>the interests of the US and Israel, especially since the
>1967 war that led Israel to take new territory.
Did the Arabs of Palestine who turned down a UN-offered
state in 1947 prefer to attack 200,000 civilian Jews
in Jerusalem? Yes. Therefore, was it not an "injustice"
that many of them lost their homes? Certainly one could
argue in favor of this point. But did the CSM state that
Israel's creation was an injustice? I don't think so,
the editors seem to be claiming that what happened to
(some) Palestinians when Israel was created was unjust.
It is possible that the editors believe that had Israel
been created without a refugee problem, then Israel's
existence would not be unjust.
More importantly, is "doofuses" really the plural of
"doofus?" Shouldn't it be "doofi?"
Whups, sorry, this comment was supposed to go w/ the CSM story, sorry !