Just an update....Wilson is 78 years old now, and "the system" will probably successfully "protect it's own".....until Wilson is too old to fight against it...
....and, by the way...David Addington, Cheney's COS, was assistant CIA General Counsel, from 1981, to 1983, under Stanley Sporkin, while Wilson was being prosecuted.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/309675_spy30.html
Last updated March 29, 2007 11:21 p.m. PT
Ex-spy dealt setback in fight to clear name
By TRACY JOHNSON
P-I REPORTER
A notorious former spy living in the Seattle area was dealt a blow Thursday in his efforts to show he was unfairly labeled a traitor, though he will keep fighting to clear his name.
A judge in Houston dismissed Edwin Wilson's lawsuit against seven former federal prosecutors -- including two who are now federal judges -- and a former executive director of the CIA. U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal found that even if the officials' behavior was improper when Wilson was sent to prison in the early 1980s, all eight legally have immunity from Wilson's claims of wrongdoing.
"I'm not giving up at all. I'm going all-out to win this thing," Wilson, 78, said Thursday. "This is just a minor setback."
An attorney for former prosecutor Lawrence Barcella, who spent years working to put Wilson in prison and was a target of his lawsuit, said she was pleased.
"The judge did absolutely the right thing," attorney Melinda Sarafa said. "We have felt from the beginning that the claims against the prosecutors would not hold up."
Wilson's attorney, Steve Berman, said he was disappointed for Wilson and will appeal.
"There were lies told before, during and after his trial, and the judge basically said, 'too bad,' " Berman said. "We don't believe they have immunity."...
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