US ex-spy Plame vows to battle CIA over free speech

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - An ex-spy whose unmasking led to the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide vowed on Saturday to press on with lawsuits against Cheney and the CIA for the sake of freedom of speech.

"Just as we have to be vigilant to protect our national security -- something I believe in passionately -- we have to be vigilant to protect our freedom of speech and First Amendment rights," Valerie Plame Wilson said in a speech at a book convention.

Plame and her publisher, Simon & Schuster, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York on Thursday against top CIA officials for blocking publication of her memoir on national security grounds.

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"This has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with political influence and manipulation," Plame said of the CIA's demand that she not discuss her service before 2002.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02385769.htm

[Peace Patriot]

1. Could this be what the "terrorist plot" at JFK was created to bump out of the "news"?

And why CNN and Cabal were having "technical difficulties" broadcasting the rival press conference--cuz CNN and Cabal had to put the rival newscast together too hastily?

Don't know the timing of each, exactly, but I was just reading about the weird press conf at JFK, at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1027382

...and then read this.

Worth investigatin' further, I think.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. This is a report from her appearence at BookExpo today...

It will replay on CSPAN2 Sunday in the early AM - Set your Tivo!

discussion thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1026897

LIVE 12pm
Book & Author Luncheon
Alan Alda, Author, "Things I Learned While Talking to Myself"
Valerie Plame, Author, "Fair Game"
Paul Krugman, Author, "Conscience of a Liberal"
Russell Simmons, Author, "Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1024412&mesg_id=1024429


on edit: proper use of contractions. :P

[Frank Cannon]

3. "National security"? You've got to be fracking kidding me.

It's pretty obvious that if this administration really gave a flip about national security, they wouldn't have outed her in the first place.

[Miss Chybil]

4. Exactly. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. I'm sure they will everything they can to block her