Today is a happy, happy day! I was thrilled to pieces to learn that Valerie Plame has filed a lawsuit against the Bushie Trifecta: Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby and Karl Rove. I'm so relieved that this issue wasn't left to die a small, quiet media death. Perhaps there will actually be some kind of monetary punishment metted out on this yet!

For those of you that need to be caught up, the Plame case is one of the all time greats of Bush administration arrogancy. Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, was on the "fact-finding" mission that the administration sent to Africa to locate proof that Saddam Huessin was trying to buy uranium on the open market. Wilson returned from that trip with no evidence, and told the administration as much. Bush continued to insinuate to the American people (and the world) that they had evidence of Saddam buying quality grade uranium when they in fact did not. It was at this point that Wilson, greatly concerned that a war could take place over this fact, went public in the New York Times with an editorial stating he never found evidence on his trip.

Curiously, not long after Wilson's editorial was published, several news sources identified his wife as a CIA agent. Not just any CIA agent, but an active, UNDERCOVER CIA agent. Revealing this little fact not only endangered Ms. Plame's life (and countless other undercover operatives tied to her), but her family as well. Not to mention it also endangered HOMELAND SECURITY. Way to go, Bushie!

I really thought that this was going to be another transgression that the American government was going to get away with, as most Americans resign themselves to thinking these days. But I've held out hope that our civil court systems may bring some justice to this world. Really, shouldn't this issue be our Watergate?