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Poor Valerie?(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
CIA: Joe Wilson says his wife's undercover career was destroyed when her name was leaked to the press. That's too bad, but what did she or Wilson expect?
To hear Wilson tell it, as he did Sunday to CBS' "60 Minutes," the unmasking in 2003 of Mrs. W., nee Valerie Plame, hit her like a bolt out of the blue. "She felt like she'd been hit in the stomach," he said. "It took her breath away."
Gone was the identity under which she had operated for nearly two decades. Wilson said she has even received threats, though he didn't go into details.
Wilson is known for being loose with the facts, but let's assume that he was on the level here. In that case, we can see why Plame would have been peeved at suddenly being forced to revise her work and social life. But if Plame were to blame anyone for derailing her career, she might take a look at her husband -- or herself.
It was Plame, after all, who set the whole drama in motion when she suggested that the CIA send Wilson to Niger in 2002 to check out reports that Iraq was angling to buy uranium there. And there's at least a hint on the public record that she and Wilson had decided in advance what he would find -- nothing.
The Senate Intelligence Committee detailed Plame's role, and suggested something about her attitude, in its 2004 report on prewar assessments of Iraqi WMD: "The former ambassador's wife told Committee staff that when CPD (the CIA's Counterproliferation Division) decided it would like to send the former ambassador to Niger, she approached her husband on behalf of the CIA and told him "there's this crazy report' on a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium ...
- Knifing Rove, whitewashing Wilson-Plame.(EDITORIALS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 19, 2005 700+ words
...Valerie Plame. Mrs. Plame is the former CIA...uranium from Niger. What is known...investigation in Niger; 2) In July 2003...passing that Mrs. Plame worked for the...denials, Mrs. Plame had suggested him for the Niger mission. So much...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Alter, Jonathan July 25, 2005 700+ words
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- News wire article from: AP Online PETE YOST October 31, 2009 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 21, 2004 700+ words
The Plame affair in America raises questions...told him last summer that Valerie Plame, the wife of a whistleblower in the Niger uranium scandal, was an undercover...That is surely the situation in the Plame case. The evidence sought from...
- Partisan politics and Wilson-Plame.(LETTERS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 16, 2006 700+ words
...TIMES The debate about Ambassador Joe Wilson's Niger visit and the subsequent Valerie Plame-leak investigation has not aged gracefully...over too small an industry" for the supposed Niger-Iraq uranium transaction to have ever taken...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 21, 2004 700+ words
...trying to buy uranium from Niger, the president's men fired...Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was an undercover CIA agent who had worked in Niger, thus suggesting Mr Wilson...the bait and identified Miss Plame as a covert operative, attributing...
- The plame game.(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Kessler, Glenn Rudman, Bill Phelps, Timothy M. March 1, 2006 700+ words
...agreement to testify in the Plame investigation (CJR, January...that the subjects of Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson, and Wilson's trip to Niger were not raised in those conversations...anyway. The exposure of Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA employee...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 14, 2006 700+ words
...public disclosure of Mrs. Plame's CIA role. It names Mr...conference for today. Mrs. Plame's CIA identity was disclosed...Mr. Novak wrote that Mrs. Plame had helped initiate her husband's 2002 mission to Niger to investigate reports that...