July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Dick Cheney, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former Cheney assistant I. Lewis Libby were sued by a former covert CIA agent who says they illegally conspired to reveal her identity.

Valerie Plame, who worked at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, filed the suit today in federal court in Washington. They are seeking unspecified financial damages.

The couple's suit accuses Cheney, Rove, Libby and other unidentified officials of violating their constitutional rights by conspiring to ``discredit, punish and seek revenge'' against Wilson for accusing President George W. Bush's administration of twisting intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. Libby faces criminal charges of lying and obstructing an investigation of the leak of Plame's identity in 2003.

So let me get this straight:

We have a non-covert, non-spy whose husband is a provable liar who has told no less that three versions of his trip to Niger and who claims the veep sent him there when it's been proven that his wife suggested the trip herself. We have Bob Novak, the guy who first published the non-spy's non-covert name saying just last night that Karl Rove didn't tell him Plame's non-secret identity -- he merely confirmed without naming the non-spy what Novak and half of Washington D.C. already knew. We have Scooter Libby who is indicted for lying to the FBI about an investigation into nothing. And now we have the non-covert non-spy suing three people who didn't leak the non-spy's non-covert name to anyone for leaking her non-secret name to discredit her husband who discredited himself years ago.

It is to laugh.