One day before President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Dick Cheney gave dueling speeches criticizing each other’s national security policies, the Obama administration supported Cheney in a lawsuit filed against him by former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Plame was caught up in the criticism that was directed at the Bush administration by her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, who publicly questioned the U.S. grounds for attacking Iraq in 2003. Plame’s identity, kept secret as part of her intelligence work, was leaked to conservative columnist Robert Novak—in an attempt to get back at Wilson, Plame has contended in a lawsuit first filed in 2006. The suit is directed at those whom Plame claims were behind her outing to Novak: Cheney; former White House senior adviser Karl Rove; former Chief of Staff to the Vice President I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr.; and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage.