Valerie Plame sues Cheney, Libby, Rove over leak

Valerie Plame - The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters - yesterday sued Cheney, Scooter Libby and Karl Rove, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career purportedly in retaliation for comments made by her husband.

Several news organizations wrote about Plame after syndicated columnist Robert Novak named her in a column on July 14, 2003. Novak's column appeared eight days after Wilson alleged in an opinion piece in The New York Times that the administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war. The scandal has highlighted the dubious modus operandi of the Bush White House.