While the Scooter Libby trial is just beginning, another case involving many of the same figures is working its way through the legal process. CREW serves as successor counsel to Valerie Plame Wilson and Joseph Wilson in their lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney, his former Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, top Presidential advisor Karl Rove, former State Department Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage and other unnamed government officials.

Yesterday, NBC News reported that while Cheney maintains he his immune from this lawsuit, that is not the case according to the recent legal filings for the Wilsons:

The Wilsons claim they were seriously injured by "retaliatory revelation" in revealing Plame's CIA employment. The court filing states the Wilsons' "fear for their safety and for the safety of their children." And, the filing says, "disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's covert identity makes her and her family a target for those persons and groups who bear hostility to the United States and/or its intelligence officers."

Attorneys for the Wilsons write that, "No case ever has accorded the Vice President absolute immunity." The court filing states that the fact that Cheney is a part of the executive branch "does not warrant according him absolute immunity."