Tortured Logic, Not Tortious Conduct
(Man, those lawyers get to use some pretty neat words!)
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled that the case had no merit.
Judge Dismisses Plame Lawsuit - washingtonpost.com
“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.
Too bad for Joe and Val.
