Valerie Plame

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So someone revelaing her "identity" gets someone sent to jail, but she wants the rights to reveal the same type of information to make a buck?? Go Figure.

In the ruling Thursday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court decision to prohibit Valerie Plame from revealing the length of her tenure with the CIA in her now published memoir.

A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights.

In the ruling Thursday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court decision. It barred Plame from revealing the length of her tenure with the CIA in her now published memoir "Fair Game."

The appeals court agreed that the agency made a good argument to keep the information secret.

Plame's identity was revealed in a syndicated newspaper column in 2003 after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, began criticizing the war in Iraq.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted to lying and obstruction of justice in an investigation of the leak. Former President Bush commuted Libby's two-and-half year prison sentence.

She and her publisher, Simon & Schuster, sued the CIA in 2007. They claimed they had a First Amendment right to publish her dates of employment with the CIA in her memoir.