Awfully stiff rules for someone who Republicans call a "paper pusher"
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Clyde
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Ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame loses court decision
Judge rules that she can't reveal the dates she worked for the spy agency in her forthcoming book.
In a setback for Valerie Plame, a federal judge ruled today that the former CIA agent cannot divulge the dates she worked for the agency in her forthcoming book, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House." The decision by U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones was a victory for the CIA, which had argued that such information was classified and should not be made public.
Plame was at the heart of a controversial case in which administration officials were accused of leaking news about her covert status in 2003 to several reporters after her husband, former envoy Joseph C. Wilson IV, publicly raised questions about the intelligence used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Simon & Schuster, which is publishing Plame's memoir, said it was "disappointed in the court's ruling, which we believe runs counter to the 1st Amendment, sets a dangerous precedent and creates an unreasonable standard by which the government can disappear public information and rewrite history," according to a statement by spokesman Adam Rothberg.
The ruling by Jones came as a result of a lawsuit that the publisher and author had filed in May seeking to bar the CIA from interfering with publication of her memoir.
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