Justice Department lawyers asked the Supreme Court not to consider a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration members of illegally disclosing the identity of then-CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Tony West and Justice Department attorneys Mark B. Stern and Charles W. Scarborough wrote a brief to the high court in response to a petition this February to revive the case against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and former Bush aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
In June 2007, the U.S. District Court in D.C. dismissed Plame’s lawsuit against the Bush administration members, and in August 2008, U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. upheld the lower court’s decision.
“The decision of the court of appeals is correct and does not conflict with any decision of this Court or any other court of appeals,” the DOJ lawyers wrote in the brief to the Supreme Court. “Further review is unwarranted.”
